ABSTRACT
From Webbe's '1\ Discussion of English Poetrie' (1586) she noted some brief comments on rhyme; from King James's 'Reulis and Cautely of Scottis Poems' or Haslewood's '1\ Treatise on the Airt of Scottis Poesie' (1584) another short comment on 'Inventioun'; and from Daniel's '1\ Defence of Rhyme' (1603), among other things, the following, which she more or less quoted in its entirety in 'Versification':
As Wiesenfarth points out, exchanges on the u se of accents b etween H arvey and Spen ser, also cited m
Haslewood, probably influenced Eliot's use of the word 'carpenter' in 'Versification': 'Our English blank verse [has] had the good fortune to be written by poets and not by carpenters'. Harvey told Spenser, 'You shall never have my subscription or consent ... to make your Carpenter our Carpenter: an inch longer or bigger than God & his Englishe people have made him'. Spenser eplied
'I like your late English hexameters so exceedingly well, that I also enure my Penne sometime in that kinde; which I fynd indeede, as I have heard you often defende in worde, neither so harde, nor so harshe, that it will easily & fairely yeeld itself to our Moother tongue. For the onely; or chiefest hardnesse, whych seemeth, is in the Accent: whyche sometime gapeth, and as it were yawneth ilfavouredly; coming shorte of that it should, & sometime exceeding the measure of the Number, as in Carpenter, the middle syllable being used short in speache, when it shall be read long in Verse, seemeth like a lame gosling, that draweth one legge after hir .. .' (Wiesenfarth, pp. 123-4,212 ~ 13)
said that poets ought to do' ('Versification', see below, p. 187). A brief extract from Campion's 'Observations' is also found in Eliot's Folger Notebook (Pratt and Neufeldt, pp. 10, 102).
