10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEXAMETRIST»
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hexametrist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hexametrist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Historical and Critical Remarks Upon the Modern Hexametrists ...
All travellers do gladly report great praise of Ulysses " For that he knewe many
men's manners and saw many cities."' The labors of Webbe as an Hexametrist,
closed with the end of the second Eclogue of Virgil and this confession, " I durste
not ...
2
Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature: Encounters, ...
all over Greece. Among later developments, the oeuvre of Theocritus can be
singled out: this hexametrist innovates and explores in the super-genre with
remarkable range. Some of the innovations involve crossing with other super-
genres, but ...
Theodore D. Papanghelis, Stephen J. Harrison, Stavros Frangoulidis, 2013
3
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
And these produce their usual effect of making the verse in some degree
unnatural and un- English. It is, however, true, that in this respect the German
hexametrist has a considerable advantage over the English. Many of the words
which are ...
Surely these difficulties, founded in the very nature of our English speech, with
which the English hexametrist finds himself beset, should be sufficient to show
both the wisdom of our great ancient masters in never having employed tribrachic
, ...
John Stuart Blackie, 1866
5
The Dublin university magazine
All this is hard on the hexametrist ; and it is harder on the man who would employ
an unusual metre in translation than on an original writer ; for the translator
undertakes to express thoughts in a language already formed and existing, and
over ...
University magazine, 1854
The expressions here, though familiar and idiomatic, are not too colloquial ;
except possibly one — "looking the fool that he was" — which, moreover, is an
interpolation, not being in Homer ; a licence which the hexametrist should
especially ...
Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, 1862
7
The Dublin University Magazine
Therefore, it is that we own to welcoming the fruits of Mr. Landon's labours, while
we look with regret on those of the other hexametrist, Mr. Dart. If the former wants
little beyond that poetic fire, which, alas! no practice may ever ive to him who ...
8
Transactions of the Philological Society: 1862/63
It should be the first object of the English hexametrist to study a strict imitation of
the classical verse in all its essential features: and it is only by after observation
that he must learn how far this imitation can suit the ear of “lerned and eke of ...
Philological Society (London), 1862
9
A Catalog of the Curious and Extensive Library of the Late ...
... (says Mr. Todd), shines particularly as an English Hexametrist. His Countess of
Pembroke's Yewchurch, and his translation of part of Heliodorus, are written in
melodious Dactyls and Spondees to the no small admiration of Sidney, Harvey,"
...
10
A catalogue of the ... library of ... James Perry ... which ...
... Mr. Todd), shines particularly as an English Hexametrist. His Countess of
Pembroke's Yewchurch, and his translation of part of Heliodorus, are written in
melodious Dactyls and Spondees to the no small admiration of Sidney, Harvey,
&c.
