Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other Dramatists. by S.T Coleridge

Author:S.T Coleridge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

No doubt, it should be statua, as in the same age, they more often pronounced ‘heroes’ as a trisyllable than dissyllable. A modern tragic poet would have written,

Last night she dreamt, that she my statue saw—

But Shakespeare never avails himself of the supposed license of transposition merely for the metre. There is always some logic, either of thought or passion, to justify it.

Act iii. sc. 1. Antony’s speech:

Pardon me, Julius—here wast thou bay’d, brave hart;

Here didst thou fail, and here thy hunters stand

Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy death.

O world! thou wast the forest to this hart,

And this, indeed, O world! the heart of thee.

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