10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOSTICH»
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A one-line poem. An example is the Japanese haiku, which is written in a single
vertical line. As the Greek Anthology (tenth century) illus- trates, the monostich
can be a proverb, an aphorism, an enigma, a fragment, an image, or an
inscription.
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Aesthetics and the Literature of Ideas: Essays in Honor of ...
Its text (I already gave the original in Japanese) reads: lei, a Saga, parmi les
herbes de 1'ete, Nombreuses sont les tombes D'anciennes beaut£s. In this haiku,
a seventeen-syllable monostich became a tercet of twenty-five! Really
scandalous!
François Jost, Melvin J. Friedman, 1990
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Skunks,' the squirrel said, 'are sent to try us.' Ralph Hodgson A monostich could
be also titled; due to the brevity of the form, the title is invariably as important a ...
I wondered if developing the skill necessary to choose the essential words from
an entire text to use in an index enabled him to select the best words to use in his
monostich poems. It seemed reasonable to conclude that his vocation and ...
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The Ambiguity of Death in the Book of Wisdom 1-6: A Study of ...
W.J. DEANE cited this very argument of completed parallelism as proof for the
opposite thesis, namely that it is a Latin gloss“. b) On the other hand, a thematic
difficulty of the monostich of v 1:15 has caused some scholars to call into
question ...
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American Journal of Philology
Although the phrase may not occur in extant Greek literature, there is a monostich
of Menander (426) which describes the forced tears of the orator (but not the
tears of his audience) : Sfiota nopvr] duKpva xai prjrap <;p«.1 Furthermore, ...
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Tenney Frank, 1907
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Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Lincoln Cathedral Chapter ...
'Quociens Marie nomen nominatur, tociens caterua de- monum fugatur' (
monostich); 'Congnatum fra- tremque cane carumque sodalem' (3 lines); 'Retro
rodentes et coram bland a loquentes' (distich); 'Portatur leuiter quod portal
quisque ...
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Psalmenprobleme: Untersuchungen Ub̈er Metrik, Strophik und ...
1); da der Vers als Monostich akzentuiert ist, so könnte auf Ausschaltung von .'
111'1'51'1 (vgl. LXX, Peä., Hier.) gedeutet sein. Ps. 106, 1 (Lag. h. d. Überschrift);
sie fehlt in Pes. —— , 5 (Lag. 1); Trist. unter Distichen; Lag. mag eher aufeinen ...
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Jesus, Rhetoric and Law
In terms of strictly literary history, it does seem that the imperative, distich
admonition was the dominant gnomic form in the oldest Egyptian wisdom
literature, with monostich gnomai more prominent only under later Hellenistic
influence.38 This ...
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A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line
This interest in a single line poem—the monostich—probably stems from my
fascination with isolating the diction in a ... edition ofThe Princeton Encyclopedia
of Poetry and Poetics suggests that the monostich is not possible in Western
poetry.
Emily Rosko, Anton Vander Zee, 2011
