10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEXAMETER»
Discover the use of
hexameter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hexameter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Latin
Hexameter Verse: An Aid to Composition; with Key
S. E. Winbolt's 1903 detailed, sensitive and copiously illustrated analysis of the technique of Latin verse-writing.
2
Out of Line: Homeric Composition Beyond the
Hexameter
This book is important for students and scholars of Homer, epic, and oral literature.
3
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
4
Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation
lectures provoked a wide range of reactions, inspiring some translators and infu-
riating others, prompting scholarly articles and critical parodies, and fanning the
flames of Victorian hexameter debates. What kind of hexameter was Arnold pre- ...
Sandra Bermann, Michael Wood, 2005
5
On the theory of the English
Hexameter, and its ...
Alexander William Crawford LINDSAY (25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of
Balcarres.) in English—to account by the application of those principles for the
failure of the majority of the attempts hitherto made to naturalise the metre in ...
Alexander William Crawford LINDSAY (25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of Balcarres.), 1862
6
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry
models, especially Homeric hexameter (a six-beat line written mostly in dactyls).
With the proliferation of nineteenth-century translations of Homer's Iliad and
Odyssey, the idea of reviving dactylic hexameter became a popular ideal - so
popular ...
The first chorus (parodos) 151–158 = 159–167: mainly dactyls, but including one
iambic dimeter, and one paroemiac enoplian, which in the strophe takes the
shape of that part of a dactylic hexameter which follows the third foot caesura – ⌣
| ⌣ ...
Sophocles, R. D. Dawe, 2006
8
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 ...
9
An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Latin Versification
The fixed form of Leonine hexameter (Leonini) H the Leonine hexameter (Leonini
) caused, for example, the obligatory use of the penthemimer break: In terra
summus II rex est hoc tempore Nummus. This caesura is thus the only principal ...
Dag Norberg, Jan Ziółkowski, 2004
10
The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry
The Hexameter The Homeric hexameter (6 daj/) * is the oldest known Greek
meter. Later hexameters, such as those of Callimachus and Nonnus, differ from
the Homeric only in allowing less variety in the use of caesura and the
substitution of ...
James W. Halporn, Martin Ostwald, Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, 1994
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEXAMETER»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
hexameter is used in the context of the following news items.
How stories are told
... the dactylic hexameter, is fairly close to the rhythm of the 'Darth Vader Death March' from Star Wars. The technique - the very way the story is ... «Bangalore Mirror, Jul 15»
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»
It's time for the annual Nichols School General Information Test
How many feet are in a line of hexameter poetry? 94. 2015 is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of this ocean liner by German U-boats. 95. «Buffalo News, 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»
Poem of the week: All Day It Has Rained by Alun Lewis
... “maybe”) are almost chastised in the line ending “but now it is the rain” – and so the hexameter is restored for the closing of that first stanza. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Sam Leith: Tube campaign makes lovers of language cringe
We have a Mayor who knows his way round a classical hexameter — and yet that same Mayor's logo endorses Travel Better London's babyish ... «Evening Standard, 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»
Poem of the week: Selling His Soul by Sophie Hannah
Additionally, the combination of pentameter and hexameter seems to reflect the Laguna metaphor, and emphasise the contrast of the slow, ... «The Guardian, 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»
