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"When Klopstock England defied":1 Coleridge, Southey and the German/English hexameter
From: Comparative Literature
Date: 20030401
Author:Bernhardt-Kabisch, Ernest
LATE IN SEPTEMBER OF 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge sent his clergyman brother George a somewhat condensed metrical paraphrase in dactylic hexameters, complete with prosodie markings, of "one of [his] favorite psalms" Psalm 46, telling his brother that, "allowing trochees for spondees as the natur e of our language demands" he would find it "pretty accurate a Scansion":2
God is our Strength and our Refuge: therefore will we not tremble,
Tho' the Earth be removed and tho' the perpetual Mountains
Sink in the Swell of the Ocean! God is our Strength and our Refuge!
There is a River the Flowing ...
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