10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENTASYLLABIC»
Discover the use of
pentasyllabic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pentasyllabic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology
8. ❀. Recent-Style. Shi. Poetry. Pentasyllabic. Regulated. Verse. (Wuyan. Lüshi).
The Tang dynasty, one of China's greatest dynasties, is seen by many as the
golden age of Chinese poetry. It saw an unprecedented rise of poetry's status.
2
The Columbia History of Chinese Literature
The first reliable attributions of pentasyllabic-line poems to known poets are to
Later Han figures. The poem often mentioned as the first true pentasyllabicline
poem by such a writer is “Yung-shih shih” (Poem on History) by the Han historian
...
3
The Age of Courtly Writing: Wen Xuan Compiler Xiao Tong ...
This poem is written in the pentasyllabic meter, a form rooted in folk songs that
emerged sometime during the Eastern Han, and was often found most suitable
for the expression of private feelings. Starting from the fall of the Han,
pentasyllabic ...
4
Harmony Garden: The Life, Literary Criticism, and Poetry of ...
We have said nothing about Yuan Mei's ancient-style poetry so far, but
pentasyllabic poetry in the ancient style was the third most important component
of his normal style. Ancient poetry is relatively free from the strictures of regulated
verse; ...
5
How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook
The “Nineteen Old Poems” are the earliest known coherent group of
pentasyllabic poems, first collected in the Wen xuan (Anthology of Refined
Literature), compiled by Xiao Tong (501–531), the crown prince of Liang. The
authorship and ...
Jie Cui, Zong-Qi Cai, 2013
6
The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature
... lyricalness and topical particularity, the growth of poetic themes such as the
quest for immortality and the plight of abandoned women, and the gradual
emergence of pentasyllabic-line poetry. Both poetry and prose by Ts'ao Ts'ao
exist today.
William H. Nienhauser, 1998
7
Pentasyllabic Endings in the Latin Hexameter with Particular ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
William Hardy Alexander, 2011
8
Understanding Quotation
Brendel (2007: §4) argues that substitutional quantification is necessary to
capture what is special about sentences of the type 'Pentasyllabic' is
pentasyllabic. In (45) the quoted 'F' should be interpreted as a substitutional
variable bound by a ...
Elke Brendel, Jörg Meibauer, Markus Steinbach, 2011
9
The Recensions of Demetrius Triclinius
eSeict' ixou | | analysing -w-« j -uw- / In T we find pentasyllabic anti- spasts
though not of this type; but it is a rule in T that where t analyses -w«-uor - as
antispasts, T returns to a choriambic analysis of the usual tetrasyllabic kind.
Further, t freely ...
10
A Concise History of Chinese Literature
Besides this poem, the “Pounding Song” by Lady Qi, Emperor Gaozu's consort,
which also dates from very early times, approximates the standard pentasyllabic
verse in form: “The son is the king, / the mother is the prisoner./ Pounding rice all
...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PENTASYLLABIC»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pentasyllabic is used in the context of the following news items.
Mutant Verbs
(Other examples of autological words: pentasyllabic, adjectival, nominalization.) Any noun can be verbed. So can many adjectives: we prettify a ... «New York Times, Oct 12»
Vanity URL: What It Is, How To Get One, & Why Your Life Is Worse …
My friend David was beaten to the vanity domain DavidScott.com – which may seem disadvantageous at first, but I think his pentasyllabic name ... «Business 2 Community, Oct 12»
Five Reasons I Still Adore Calvin & Hobbes
There's nothing better than a six-year-old kid who ruminates on life using pentasyllabic words. Here's to holding the funnies in one hand and a ... «Paste Magazine, Jan 09»
Sam Sadigursky: The Words Project
... the extreme lower range on the pentasyllabic "subterrenean and follows with a repeated, majestic melody solemnly anchored by a backbeat. «All About Jazz, Aug 07»
