10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEXAMETRICAL»
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hexametrical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hexametrical and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sacred Words: Orality, Literacy and Religion: Orality and ...
In short, it is impossible to claim that the lead amulets quote or even allude
directly to the boast of Demeter and it is far more likely that the author of the
Homeric hymn is, like Pindar or Aeschylus, drawing on a popular tradition of
hexametrical ...
André Lardinois, Josine Blok, M.G.M. van der Poel, 2011
2
Greek and Latin Literature of the Roman Empire: From ...
Here we find rhetorical exercises beside epithalamia and dedicatory poems
addressed to his teacher beside short hexametrical retellings of mythical
episodes. Counted among the works of Dracontius is finally also a so-called
tragedy, ...
3
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For there will they sing the Deeds of Jehovah, His Deeds will the People of Israel
praise, 40 256, HEXAMETRICAL VERSION OF ISAIAH [Dec 1799? Aug,Oct 1802
?] C frequently praised the poetry in Isaiah, especially the first chapter tLects ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, J. C. C. Mays, 2001
4
The Poetry of He Zhu (1052-1125): Genres, Contexts, and ...
ADDENDUM: HEXAMETRICAL QUATRAINS IN THE CAPITAL, 1086 AND 1092
Hexametrical quatrains are relatively rare. A mammoth Southern Song collection
of Tang Quatrains (7,500 heptametrical Quatrains and 2,500 pentametrical ...
Stuart Howard Sargent, 2007
5
Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold ...
After all, the hexameter is the dominant metrical form in these tablets. The direct
speech of the speaking voice expresses itself in hexameters, and the words that
the soul has to speak in front of infernal guards or judges are also hexametrical ...
Fritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston, 2013
6
Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold ...
There is only one explanation for this complex structure: the unmetrical
acclamations reproduce ritual formulae that have been integrated into an earlier
hexametrical text. This must mean that these texts were meant for oral
performance; they ...
Well, my hexametrical cousin, how goes on the great cause of l\ English
hexameters? Am I to congratulate you, or otherwise, upon the Bothie rf Toper-na-
Fu0sich ? Do you rejoice in it as a proof of the progress of hexametrical faith, or
lament ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1849
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
DIALOGUES ON ENGLISH HEXAMETERS. No. II. Marcus. Well, my hexametrical
cousin, how goes on the great cause of English hexameters ? Am I to
congratulate you, or otherwise, upon the Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich f Do you
rejoice in it ...
9
Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions
Thus, as in the preceding recipe from PGM II, the hexametrical songs ofhumans
cause the arrival ofthe god, who will in turn inspire the practitioner to sing in
another hexametrical genre: an inspired prophetic song. The focus ofthis hymn
on ...
Ra'anan S. Boustan, Annette Yoshiko Reed, 2004
10
Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of ...
This conservatism is traceable in the unusual mix of dialects and archaisms
alongside more standard Ionic and contemporary forms in Homeric language.13
More to the point for our purposes, hexametrical diction is both an avenue for and
a ...
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Edward Burroughs Irving, Mark Amodio, 2003
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