A Handbook of Poetics for Students of English VerseGinn, 1913 - 250 páginas |
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... Latin and sacred lore makes it international . Poetry can now deliber- ately choose its subject ; it has different roads before it . The epic process still goes on , but new customs disturb it and break up the grand march into petty ...
... Latin and sacred lore makes it international . Poetry can now deliber- ately choose its subject ; it has different roads before it . The epic process still goes on , but new customs disturb it and break up the grand march into petty ...
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... Latin once made possible the ideal for which Goethe sighed , a world - literature . In the medieval Latin there was already collected a rude history of the world . In dis- torted shape , the heroes of old time passed through the Latin ...
... Latin once made possible the ideal for which Goethe sighed , a world - literature . In the medieval Latin there was already collected a rude history of the world . In dis- torted shape , the heroes of old time passed through the Latin ...
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... Latin , in which many of these tales appeared . Romances were greatly beloved in the middle ages , and made an important part of the first books printed by Caxton , — “ joyous and pleasant his- tories of chivalry . " Finally , they were ...
... Latin , in which many of these tales appeared . Romances were greatly beloved in the middle ages , and made an important part of the first books printed by Caxton , — “ joyous and pleasant his- tories of chivalry . " Finally , they were ...
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... Latin poetry of the early church . The last poets of profane Latin literature had a strong leaning toward allegory ; and it was taken up with ardor by the Chris- tians as particularly suited to their purposes . Prudentius ( born in ...
... Latin poetry of the early church . The last poets of profane Latin literature had a strong leaning toward allegory ; and it was taken up with ardor by the Chris- tians as particularly suited to their purposes . Prudentius ( born in ...
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... Latin , and of Spenser and William Browne for the English . This kind of poetry also had its origin in worship of the gods , and began in Greece with the wor- ship of Pan and the Dorian Artemis . The Spanish pastoral poem Diana , by ...
... Latin , and of Spenser and William Browne for the English . This kind of poetry also had its origin in worship of the gods , and began in Greece with the wor- ship of Pan and the Dorian Artemis . The Spanish pastoral poem Diana , by ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accented syllables action Alexandrine allegory alliteration anapestic Anglo-Saxon ballad beginning-rime Beowulf blank verse Byron cæsura called Century character Chaucer classic metres combined comedy common dactylic dance drama early effect end-rime English verse epic epic poetry example famous feminine foot four accents French Germanic Greek half-verse Hamlet harmony heavy syllables heroic verse hexameter hounds of spring hovering accent iamb iambic iambic movement imitated Keats King later Latin Layamon legend license light syllables lines literature long syllable Lost Love's Labour's Lost lyric poetry measure metaphor metre metrical scheme Milton moral nature play poem poet poetical popular prose quantity regular rhetorical rhythm rhythmic pause rimed couplets rimeless rule run-on says Septenary Shak Shakspere Shakspere's short silent simile sing slurring song sonnet sounds stanza stress stress-syllable style Surrey Tennyson thee thou tion tone tragedy trochaic trochee trope unaccented syllables verse-accent vowel word-accent words
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Página 120 - The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters.
Página 118 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Página 239 - Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Página 239 - WILD West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow...
Página 223 - If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear By external swelling : but she looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace.
Página 112 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 131 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Página 158 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Página 130 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet But wherefore all night long shine these?
Página 200 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.