10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALCAIC»
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1
Remarks on the Latin
Alcaic and Sapphic metre, as exhibited ...
As in the Alcaic Horace has used the form— Insolitos docnere nisus, oftener than
' Consiliis juvenis revictse, and probably be thought it more dignified. For the ear
is not allowed to pause' upon the seventh syllable, as it is in the other line : so ...
2
Eranus, a Collection of Exercises in the
Alcaic and Sapphic ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Francis Warre Cornish, 2012
3
A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition
The Alcaic meter is named for the Greek poet Alcaeus, who is traditionally
credited with its invention. It is Horace's favorite lyric meter (used in thirty-seven
odes) but is used only once by Statius. Accordingly, the guidelines and exercises
that ...
4
Latin Scripts and Letters A.D. 400-900: Festschrift ...
4 where the alcaic decasyllabic (-ww-ww-|w-w) occurs in even lines. Lupus
correctly identified the phalaecian hendecasyllabic as the metre of the odd lines
but mistook the alcaic form for the dactilicum archilochium (tetrameter catalectic).
Ludwig Bieler, John Joseph O'Meara, Bernd Naumann, 1976
5
An elementary manual of Latin prosody
This forms the first two lines of the Alcaic Stanza.1 Having now described the
Alcaic Hendecasyllabic; Alcaic Decasyllabic (page 125); and Alcaic
Enneasyllabic (page 120), we now proceed to discuss the Alcaic Stanza, which is
formed by ...
William Wardlaw Ramsay, 1859
6
An Elementary Treatise on Latin Prosody, ... with rules for ...
This forms the two first lines of the Alcaic Stanza.' Alcaic Enneasyllabic. See
Iambic Trimeter Hypercatalectic. Having now described the Alcaic
Hendecasyllabic, Decasyllabic, (page 217,) and Enneasyllabic, we now proceed
to discuss the ...
William RAMSAY (M.A., of Glasgow.), 1837
7
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
The first two lines, the hendecasyllables, are known as greater alcaics, the
decasyllable (fourth line) as a lesser alcaic. Horace, who used this strophe more
than any other in his Odes (37 times), seems to have regarded it as a four-line
stanza, ...
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012
8
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
The first two lines, the hendecasyllables, are known as greater alcaics, the
decasyllable (fourth line) as a lesser alcaic. Horace, who used this strophe more
than any other in his Odes (37 times), seems to have regarded it as a four-line
stanza, ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
9
A synopsis of Latin Grammar (upon the plan of Ruddiman).
'SCAZON, on CHOLIAMBIC. ' The Scazon or Choliambic, difiers from the Iambic
Trimeter Acalectic only, that it has an Iambus in the. fifth place, and a Spondee in
the sixth; as, l. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Cir In I the; I trim cm» I sé'vé I'rE ye' I nisti. I ALCAIC.
10
Transactions of the Philological Society
It is apparent, without further explanation, that the elements of the third and fourth
lines of the Alcaic stanza are the same as we have had to treat before. In the
fourth line they take the logacedic form, in which the dactylic series has no
catalectic ...
Philological Society (Great Britain), 1854
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Review: 'What WH Auden Can Do for You,' by Alexander McCall Smith
He wrote his elegy in Alcaic quatrains, after Greek and Latin models. This book doesn't even print these quatrains as they are supposed to ... «Wall Street Journal, Dec 13»
London 2012: Olympic ode recited by Boris Johnson
He said he wrote the ode in the style of classical poet Pindar, using what is called alcaic metre. "Writing an ode for the Games revives a musical ... «BBC News, Jul 12»
Vivat Latinitas! On my summer vacation, I spoke a dead language.
Other exercises were more modern: using hip-hop beats to memorize Alcaic meter, say. Advertisement. The class comprised undergraduate ... «Slate Magazine, Aug 11»
