10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEROIC COUPLET»
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heroic couplet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
heroic couplet and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The First Book of the Iliad of Homer, Etc. [i.e. Il. VI. ...
... a “somewhat literal rendering of the First Book of the Iliad into heroic couplet;” a
third remarks that “ FAITHFUL ADHERENOE TO THE MEANING or THE
ORIGINAL GREEK, and avoidance of epithets, distinguish the translation under
notice.
2
Beginnings of the "Classical"
Heroic Couplet in England...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
3
Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form
Without that kind of sounding, the line would not scan as part of a heroic couplet.
Yet there is no agreement as to how Chaucer used this sounded /. The vowel
seems to have been sounded or not sounded, according to whether a line would
or ...
4
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley
"An Answer to the Rebus" departs from the heroic couplet in its last four lines to
employ iambic tetrameter. She attempted her most complicated formal poetic
pattern in "An Hymn to Humanity," a poor poem; but her one use of ballad stanza
was ...
Phillis Wheatley, Julian Dewey Mason, 1989
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Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
Merriam-Webster, Inc. 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552. heroic
couplet heroic couplet A couplet of rhyming iambic pentameters often forming a
distinct rhetorical as well as metrical unit. The origin of the form in English poetry
is ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1995
6
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
Pope developed the heroic couplet into a primarily social—as opposed to
Dryden's political—instrument. He presented himself as a sensible gentleman
addressing either an intimate friend—as in the opening lines of the Essay on Man
—or an ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Pope developed the heroic couplet into a primarily social—as opposed to
Dryden's political—instrument. He presented himself as a sensible gentleman
addressing either an intimate friend—as in the opening lines of the Essay on Man
—or an ...
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012
8
A Guide to English Literature
17 Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot by Pope ♢ The heroic couplet was the main channel
through which all English literary imagination flowed during the eighteenth
century. The history of literary movements is not the history of artificial imposition
but the ...
Kaleem M. Jan, Shabnam Firdaus, 2003
9
An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the ...
With Dryden's translation of Virgil's Aeneid and Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad
, the pentameter couplet becomes "heroic," though heroic couplet is actually a
relatively recent coinage. To be sure, from the sixteenth century onward, the ...
Annie Finch, Kathrine Varnes, 2002
10
Spenser's International Style
That is to say, the so-called heroic couplet actually came into being as a
substitute for, a functional equivalent of, the elegiac couplet favored by epigram-
writers like Martial (in the classical period) and Beza (in the Renaissance).SI
Grimald's ...
David Scott Wilson-Okamura, 2013
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEROIC COUPLET»
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heroic couplet is used in the context of the following news items.
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And romantic Year 10 students discover that Romeo and Juliet are not really a(n) heroic couplet! Henry Lawson wrote of the backblocks bard ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 15»
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John Dryden made a similar point in a heroic couplet: “Great wits are sure to madness near allied, / And thin partitions do their bounds divide." ... «The Australian Financial Review, Mar 15»
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…like, for example, the heroic couplet, a form favored by the likes of Geoffery Chaucer. Refresher course: the heroic couplet form is constructed ... «Bustle, Feb 15»
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No heroic couplet for putting a can of beer up the behind of a chicken. No epic ballad for jalapenos stuffed with dates and cheese, wrapped with ... «Chicago Tribune, Jan 15»
Q&A: Editors reveal trove of 19th-century African American poetry in …
They also write in traditional forms such as the heroic couplet and the sonnet. The diverse array of subject matter and the emotional range of ... «ArtsATL, Oct 14»
Secrets of the Creative Brain
John Dryden made a similar point in a heroic couplet: “Great wits are sure to madness near allied, / And thin partitions do their bounds divide.” Compared with ... «The Atlantic, Jun 14»
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A heroic couplet isn't limited to poetics, See, stolen from some sacred paper - imitated prosthetics. The Lord's an Indian giver, gives it in ... «Irish Times, Sep 13»
Collecting Rare Books and First Editions - Alexander Pope's Legacy …
The work highlighted Pope's mastery of (and preference for) the heroic couplet. It also attracted the attention of more established poets Jonathan Swift and John ... «ILAB, May 13»
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... Rocky immediately adapts to seemingly any beat, remaining charmingly unflappable through every heroic couplet and sing-song chorus that ... «Idolator: All About The Music, Jan 13»
A Competitive World: Ambition and Self-Help in Trollope's An …
... Trollope tends toward parallelism—the turn of phrase that Hugh Sykes Davies identified as “not unlike that found in the heroic couplet of the ... «The Fortnightly Review, Nov 12»
