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Microstructure and Macrostructure in Isaiah 28–35
… The key takeaways are that although Robert Lowth articulated Hebrew poetry as consisting of meter and parallelism, a consensus now exists that Hebrew poetry is not metrical. Rather, Hebrew poetry consists of free verse. Parallelism also does not precisely capture the relationships …
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Robert Lowth's Hebraic Sublime and the "Ample Field of Poetry"
This dissertation is a study of Robert Lowth’s theorizing of the Hebraic sublime and its posterity in the second half of the eighteenth century. I begin with an exploration of Lowth’s description of the sublime across Lectures XIV-XVII, showing how, counter to his own claims about copying Longinus, …
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Joseph Priestley and the French Connection: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Grammaticography.
… work as either a reaction to the success of Robert Lowth’s Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762), or a ‘descriptive’ counterpart to the perceived ‘prescriptivism’ of Lowth’s approach to grammar. The central aim of this thesis is to challenge these narratives by providing new insights …