What We Are Reading Today: The Fetters of Rhyme
Author: Rebecca M. Rush
In his 1668 preface to Paradise Lost, John Milton rejected the use of rhyme, portraying himself as a revolutionary freeing English verse from 'the troublesome and modern bondage of Riming.'
Milton, however, was not initiating a new line of thought — English poets had been debating about rhyme and its connections to liberty, freedom, and constraint since Queen Elizabeth's reign.
'The Fetters of Rhyme' traces this dynamic history of rhyme from the 1590s through the 1670s. Rebecca Rush uncovers the associations early modern readers attached to rhyming forms.
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