10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DACTYLIC»
Discover the use of
dactylic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dactylic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Vergil's Aeneid: selections from books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, and 12
VERGIL'S METER The Dactylic Hexameter (sections 391-410) Vergil used
dactylic hexameter, the meter of epic poetry, to compose the Aeneid. Homer (8th
century B.C.) established the epic character of dactylic hexameter by using it to ...
Barbara Weiden Boyd, 2004
2
A Book of German
Dactylic Poetry
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3
An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the ...
Since Homer and perhaps much earlier, before written poetry, the dactylic meter
has rolled through Western literature like a "polyphlos- boiou thalassa" (many-
sounding sea), to use a phrase of Homer's. The ancient dactylic poems have
been ...
Annie Finch, Kathrine Varnes, 2002
4
The Grammar of English Grammars: With an Introduction ...
\Vhat syllables have stress in a pure dactylic line? 65. \Vith what does single-
rhymcd dactylic end? 66. Is dactylic verse very common? 67. \Vhat are the
several measures of dactylic verse? 68. \Vhat is composite verse? 69. Must
composites ...
5
A Treatise on Greek Tragic Metres: With the Choric Parts of ...
DACTYLIC VERSES. The Dactylic is the most ancient form of verse with which
we are acquainted ; being the form in which the poems of Homer, the oldest
authentic poetry existing, were composed, and in which the oracular responses,
which ...
6
A Manual of Latin Prosody
Variety, as in the epithet Scazon (lame, halting), applied to distinguish a variety of
the Iambic Trimeter Acatalectic, or Miurus, to a variety of the Dactylic Hexameter
Acatalectic. It ought to be observed, that many different species of verse have ...
7
An elementary manual of Latin prosody
Again, the Dactylic Hexameter Acatalectic is frequently entitled simply Heroic
verse, or the Heroic Hexameter, because it was the verse chosen by the Epic
writers of Greece and Rome : the Galliambic derived its appellation from the Galli
or ...
William Wardlaw Ramsay, 1859
8
Elements of Greek prosody and metre
Epode. t'mira Tfj tupgat k jtneAoe Antispast. dim. ffirunt arxTu- Dochmiac. vu
fiMXitfbi Motrin, Choriamb, dim. cat. irutrm t' Ity^n'opim pMo/aserrois Dactylic
tetram. dij5» ipfixixcwo, Pherecratic. Ttj t>« TWT&» Trochaic monometer. m'rtt
IppfioX* ...
9
Elements of the Doctrine of Metres
The ancient writers on rhythm call trochaic rhythm biirXa- atov, dactylic laov,
because in the former a double time is set together or compared with a single
one, in the latter a double with a double, that is an equal with au equal. But not all
...
10
Interfaces Between Language and Culture in Medieval England: ...
QUAE NON HABET INTELLECTUM: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF FIFTH-FOOT
SPONDEES FROM DACTYLIC HEXAMETER VERSE Seppo Heikkinen
University of Helsinki 1. Introduction The dactylic hexameter was the most
frequently used ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DACTYLIC»
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dactylic is used in the context of the following news items.
You'll Never Effing Believe Why This Professor Got Fired
I'll slap a “trigger warning” on some German poetry if that makes the students happy (TW: Contains sexual violence and dactylic hexameter!). «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
Integrity celebrates 40 years with festive Eucharist
Weaving together the stories of the Odyssey (former English professor Crew nodded and smiled at her reference to dactylic hexameter), her ... «Episcopal News Service, Jun 15»
Splendid Strength
The virtue in Green's translation comes from its meter. Homer's poetry is written in dactylic hexameter, six sets of dactyls, a poetic foot consisting ... «Washington Free Beacon, Jun 15»
Chatological Humor: Monthly with Moron (June)
We shall do so in double dactylic meter. Higgledy piggledy U.S. conservatives "Gay folks are human" gets. Grumbles galore. Health care for ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
Classical Mythology Too Triggering for Columbia Students
Written entirely in dactylic hexameter, The Metamorphoses inspired future writers from Dante to Chaucer to Shakespeare. Whether or not it's ... «Reason, May 15»
Hannibal Lecture – The Illiad
Homeric verse, dactylic hexameter and the tolerance of inconsistency in the storytelling were also on Powell's lecture agenda. The story of the ... «The Current, Apr 15»
A hallucinatory journey
... the iambic word sketches of Wordsworth and the romantic poets, which in turn evolved from the dactylic narrative poems of Homer and Virgil. «Daily Times, Apr 15»
The People Behind 'The Hunger Games' Are Turning Homer's …
But with 12,110 lines of dactylic hexameter to work with, the writers should have enough material for however many hours of swords and ... «UPROXX, Apr 15»
No Place Like Homer
... but rather served as compositional aids to the singer, inserted on the fly into slots of the dactylic hexameter where needed. At some later date, ... «The Weekly Standard, Mar 15»
Review: ODY-C #3
In true epic style and because retelling The Odyssey wasn't quite enough of a challenge, Fraction has chosen to write ODY-C in dactylic ... «Comicosity, Feb 15»
