#71 - H.W.Fowler - Modern English Usage


Author or Editor: H.W.Fowler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Pages: 873

High in Fowler's order of priority were prosodie and other poetical terms derived from classical literature and used, often with modifications, by English poets: alcaics, alexandrine, anacrusis, arsis, etc. The chalk-lined hand the classics master at Sedbergh is most clearly observed in this group of words. I decided, on balance, that these articles, with minor modifications, should be retained in the third edition.

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