10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEXAMETRAL»
Discover the use of
hexametral in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hexametral and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Verse Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Vladimir ...
Vladimir Maiakovskii. Tragediia; Oblako V Shtanakh; Fleita-pozvonochnik;
Chelovek; Liubliu; Pro Eto Robin Aizlewood. 1. Hexametral Verse Hexametral
verse is a long line form based more or less closely on the traditional Russian
hexameter ...
2
The Athenaeum: Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine ...
I propose, therefore, as a very good example of R's hexametral doctrine: _ I am
your | most humble [ and very | obedient I servant. ' | s l i i i of being so. Such were
the mangled hexamcters which your witty old Nash scourged unmercifully.
3
Saunders, Otley, & co.'s Literary budget
... of a language ; and the eligibility of the hexametral form for translations of
Homer resolves itself into the question, whether that metre in English and in
German agrees in its general cadence with the Greek. The same metre may be
light and ...
Saunders, Otley and co, 1861
4
A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language; on a ...
Semi-pentametrical verse admits every variety of single rhyme: it has not, like the
mock-hexametral metre, peculiar excellence in appropriation to any certain
subject, nor can it be used alternately with the mock-hexameter, as the real ...
The water he draws from the Castalian spring will irresistibly, for the time, take the
form of the pitcher he employs. When the English language is poured into the
hexametral mould, there is a certain general moral and intellectual form, which it
is ...
Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot, 1863
6
Stories From the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers ...
The metre he has chosen, the hexametral, harmonises with the spirit of primitive
simplicity in which the poem is conceived; is itself a background, as much as are "
Knoydart, Croydart, Moydart, Morrer, and Ardnamurchan;" and gives a new ...
Then comes Pollio who sings In hexametral rhythm the deeds ofkings;
Courageous sharpepic nomancan write Like Varius, the Muses who delight In
country things have granted to Virgil All softness, charm, and sparkling overspill.
This is what ...
8
Works: Miscellaneous works
Mr. Warton thought that the hexametral translation of Virgil to which Hall alluded
was Webb's Translation of the Bucolics : but it wotfld rather seem to be
Stanihtfrst's Translation of the .Eneid, 8vo. 1579 : for Hall; in his fifth line, says "
Manhood ...
Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, 1808
9
Mary Stuart, The maid of Orleans, from the Germ., with a ...
The hexametral verse in which the Messiah is composed had formerly been
attempted by some of the older German poets, as by Fischart, but their barbarous
imitations of the Greek metre had long fallen in oblivion ; and Klopstock may, with
...
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Hugh Salvin, 1824
10
Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)
Forthe bursts of poetry are briefandrare, issuing from amidwhat Horace often
reminds us are essentially plain prose essaysin conversational form, their
hexametral garban unpoetical accident. Two versions present themselves to the
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