10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELEGIAC STANZA»
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elegiac stanza in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
elegiac stanza and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing ...
English. poets had come to prefer and defend quatrains, their “elegiac stanza.”
The “heroic quatrain,” iambic pentameter lines rhyming abab, became associated
with the English elegy, the best-known example being Gray's Elegy in a Country
...
Paula R. Backscheider, 2010
2
The Stanzaic Architecture of Early Greek Elegy
Indeed, like the fourteen-line Petrarchan stanza or the nine-line Spensarian, the
relatively long length of the elegiac stanza provides more than adequate space
for the full development of coherent arguments or ideas within the span of a
single ...
Christopher A. Faraone, 2008
3
Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and ...
Elegiac Stanza 616. The Elegiac Stanza consists of two verses, — a Hexameter
followed by a Pentameter.1 The Pentameter Yerse is the same as the Hexameter,
except that it omits the last half of the third foot and of the sixth foot : — J- 33 U ...
Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, 1916
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The Poet Without a Name: Gray's Elegy and the Problem of History
In this regard, it is important to note that Gray's four-line stanza of alternating
rhymes, which came to be regarded as the "elegiac stanza" in the eighteenth
century (partly, no doubt, as a result of the Elegy itself), was often referred to as
the ...
Elegiac Stanza. 363. The Elegiac Stanza is constructed by alternating the
hexameter verse with the so-called Pentameter,1 which is the same with it, only
omitting the last half of the. fourth and sixth feet : as, C7C3 I C35 I II A I uul \J\j\ A" .
niflrirlr ...
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A Latin Grammar: Founded on Comparative Grammar
Elegiac Stanza. 363. The Elegiac Stanza is constructed by alternating the
hexameter verse with the so-called Pentameter,1 which is the same with it, only
omitting the last half of the fourth and sixth feet : as, 00 I vXJ I !! A I wwl wwl A ...
Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, 1882
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A Latin grammar for schools and colleges, by J.H. Allen and ...
Elegiac Stanza. 363. The Elegiac Stanza is constructed by alternating the
hexameter verse with the so-called Pentameter,1 which is the same with it, only
omitting the last half of the fourth and sixth feet : as, \jO I _ CO I II A I uu| I A' r trlrc/
1 r ...
Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, 1882
8
Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form
In the twentieth century, Gray's elegiac stanza was put to use to meditative effect
by some of the so-called Georgians; that is to say, poets of the reign of George V.
These included W. H. Davies (1861-1940; see his poem, 'Days that have Been') ...
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The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature
After Demogorgon's next elegiac stanza, 'A Confused Voice' sings a line to rhyme
with him; and Demogorgon's sixth stanza is followed by a line from 'A Voice'. The
seventh elegiac quatrain is followed, then, by 'All', who sing a line to rhyme ...
Frederick Burwick, Nancy Moore Goslee, Diane Long Hoeveler, 2012
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Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
See dactyl; elegy; epicedium. elegiac meter The meter used in the elegiac distich
(q.v.). elegiac stanza Also known as Hammond's meter, heroic quatrain (q.v.) and
elegiac quatrain. It seems that a quatrain (q.v.) of iambic pentameters (q.v.), ...
