Note 177 — Chapter II · RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY
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Mingled verse and prose has always a late, artificial manner; for example, the Satura Menippea, imitated in Latin by Varro and Petronius (Teuffel and Schwabe, Hist. Roman Literature, trans. Warr, I. 255), and claimed for the half-rhythmical portion of Swift’s Battle of the Books, by Feyerabend, Englische Studien, XI. 487 ff. Some of Feyerabend’s scanning, by the way, is highly adventurous.