puttenham's 'figures auricular' poll

Went for hendiadys, the choice and favourite of shakespeare.

I sort of love Puttenham, tho' (because?) I do find him a bit overwhelming. He's definitely in that early modern bit where it feels like my footing's starting to slip, like words might not mean what I think they do, & the grounds are alien or unintuitive. But elaborate rhetorical toolkits are basically the best.

patimion shld be parimion fwiw

These documents paint a decidedly troubled picture of George Puttenham as a compulsive adulterer, a serial rapist and a wife-beater.[1] In addition he seems to have followed his elder brother's precedent in having at least one child with his maidservants.[1] One he took to Flanders and abandoned.[1] One of the more lascivious stories asserts that when Puttenham was forty-three, he also had his servant kidnap a 17-year-old girl in London and bring her to his farm at Upton Grey near Sherfield, where he raped her and kept her locked up for three years.[1]

well fuck him then.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/709138/thumbs/o-CHRIS-BROWN-REVIEW-570.jpg?1

don't think there is any danger of encouraging puttenham at this point so we're clear to go

The eare hauing receiued his due satisfaction by the auricular figures, now must the minde also be seured, with his naturall delight by figures sensible such as by alteration of intendments affect the courage, and geue a good liking to the conceit. And first, single words haue their sence and vnderstanding altered and figured many wayes, to wit, by transport, abuse, crosse-naming, new naming, change of name. This will seeme very darke to you, vnlesse it be otherwise explaned more particularly: and first of Transport.

get the feeling whoever wrote that Chris Brown review had broader issues with "commercialised R&B" but enough digression

i like irmus but this isn't to be decided in 20 seconds

i only heard of him this week obv (spending my unemployment working through everyone mentioned in the norton anthology (leaving me in a surprisingly good mood, most days))

is 'skitzy' a word

only heard of pattenhem this week, i mean. chris brown i heard of at least a month ago.

fuck work, best use of friday's last office hour is reading Puttenham on good shapes for poetry

The figure Ouall.

This figure taketh his name of an egge, and also as it is thought his first origine, and is as it were a bastard or imperfect rounde declining toward a longitude, and yet keeping within one line for her periferie or compasse as the rounde, and it seemeth that he receiueth this forme not as an imperfection by any impediment vnnaturally hindring his rotunditie, but by the wisedome and prouidence of nature for the commoditie of generation, in such of her creatures as being not forth a liuely body (as do foure footed beasts) but in stead thereof a certaine quantitie of shapelesse matter contained in a vessell, which after it is sequestred from the dames body receiueth life and perfection, as in the egges of birdes, fishes, and serpents: for the matter being of some quantitie, and to issue out at a narrow place, for the easie passage thereof, it must of necessitie beare such shape as might not be sharpe and greeuous to passe as an angle, nor so large or obtuse as might not essay some issue out with one part moe then other as the rounde, therefore it must be slenderer in some part & yet not without a rotunditie & smoothnesse to giue the rest and easie deliuerie. Such is the figure Ouall whom for his antiquitie, dignitie and vse, I place among the rest of the figures to embellish our proportions: of this sort are diuers of Anacreons ditties, and those other of the Grecian Liricks, who wrate wanton amorous deuises, to solace their witts with all, and many times they would (to giue it right shape of an egge) deuide a word in the midst, and peece out the next verse with the other halfe, as ye may see by perusing their meetres.

he kind of gets distracted thinking about eggs there

it must of necessitie beare such shape as might not be sharpe and greeuous to passe as an angle, nor so large or obtuse as might not essay some issue out with one part moe then other as the rounde, therefore it must be slenderer in some part & yet not without a rotunditie & smoothnesse to giue the rest and easie deliuerie.

i'm having to work on a specification of requirements doc for work at the moment - i would like to do it all in this manner.

i mentioned this book to a friend and he said oh my god it is the best book ever and you have to look at the section on rhomboids

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Histeron proteron by a mile.

of aposiopesis:

This figure is fit for phantasticall heads and such as be sodaine or lack memorie. I know one of good learning that greatly blemisheth his discretion with this maner of speach: for if he be in the grauest matter of the world talking, he will vpon the sodaine for the flying of a bird ouerthwart the way, or some other such sleight cause, interrupt his tale and neuer returne to it againe.

a rime of good simphonie should not conclude his concords with one & the same terminant sillable, as less, less, less, but with diuers and like terminants, as les, pres, mes, as was before declared in the chapter of your cadences

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--8ZpD8Oimto/TZpK2adbRvI/AAAAAAAAAqM/qCygvdLi8ic/s1600/les+dawson+2.jpg

http://toque.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/john-prescott.jpg

http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n601/gamalielratsey/7182278710_3e781e6da2_z_zps0fdc9122.jpg

diuers and like terminants, in the chapter of your cadences.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

That was pretty exhilirating. What's next?

sure I went for irmus, but doesn't seem to have registered.

it's the big guns next, Aimless - metaphora, or the figure of transport and onomatopeia, or the new namer. thomp shd go through all of these and do a poll of polls at the end.