Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, satirizes use of ancient sources for poetry 35 men, sexuality 156, 157 Merry, Robert (“Il Ferito”) 11, 167, 224 “metaphysical” 11 meter 72, 121, 245 accentual meter 53 accentual-syllabic meter 53 accentualism 70 Burns’s meter 60 classical meters, influence 65 Coleridge’s views 111 contrasted with those of Wordsworth 59, 208, 209, 212 eighteenth-century use 54–6 nature 98 poetic meter 53, 250 and prose 62 quantitative meters 54 Scottish meter 61 and ventriloquism 58