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Definition of Prosodists
1. prosodist [n] - See also: prosodist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosodists
Literary usage of Prosodists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"CHAPTER IV prosodists Continued poverty of the subject—Dryden—Mulgrave, Roscommon,
etc. Continued THE remarks which were made in the corresponding subject ..."
2. The Poetry of the Future by James Wood Davidson (1888)
"... C is the cleverest of our American prosodists—Edgar Poe—and he assures us ...
that all prosodists are always wrong; and that the verses we are looking ..."
3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1887)
"prosodists assumed that the quantity of an English syllabic depended on ...
The rules hitherto adopted by prosodists for the position of the stress-mark ..."
4. A History of French Versification by Leon Emile Kastner (1903)
"Already in the first half of the sixteenth century French prosodists were ignorant
... But what is more strange is that all the modern French prosodists are ..."
5. Chapters on English Printing, Prosody, and Pronunciation (1550-1700) by Bastiaan Adriaan Pieter van Dam, Cornelis Stoffel (1902)
"And if only the nineteenth century prosodists went no farther than Bysshe, we
need not greatly care for such fault-finding. But unfortunately they go a good ..."
6. The Foundations and Nature of Verse by Cary Franklin Jacob (1918)
"What is called by prosodists accent is in reality a focal point of intensity.1 In
... Misled by half truths, some prosodists have claimed that increase of ..."
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