The Classic Line: A Study in Epic PoetryFocusing particular attention on "Beowulf", "Roland", the "Cid", the "Iliad", the "Odyssey", the "Aeneid", the "Divine comedy", and "Paradise lost", the author examines the formal rhetorical and syntactical features in these poems. |
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... poet stirs them ( styrian ) with wisdom ( snyttrum ) . So managed , they will be “ successful , ” " bound with truth . " In this pre - philosophical age , we may not press for truth to be defined , and yet the ring of the word ...
... poet stirs them ( styrian ) with wisdom ( snyttrum ) . So managed , they will be “ successful , ” " bound with truth . " In this pre - philosophical age , we may not press for truth to be defined , and yet the ring of the word ...
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... poet can be both , and noble at the same time . Homer is the only poet who so notably embodies all three attributes , with the possible exception of Dante . Beowulf , if noble , is certainly not rapid and in a sense not plain . The ...
... poet can be both , and noble at the same time . Homer is the only poet who so notably embodies all three attributes , with the possible exception of Dante . Beowulf , if noble , is certainly not rapid and in a sense not plain . The ...
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... poet , in receiv- ing his epithets , must relate them to his overall conception just because he must use them over and over again , because they refer to a single , recurrent feature , and also because some of them may have arisen in ...
... poet , in receiv- ing his epithets , must relate them to his overall conception just because he must use them over and over again , because they refer to a single , recurrent feature , and also because some of them may have arisen in ...
Contents
Folk Destinies | 3 |
The Signal Fires | 49 |
The Man of Many Turns | 120 |
Copyright | |
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abstract accents Achaeans Achilles action Adam Aeneas Aeneid Agamemnon Alexandrian allegorical analogy angels ballad battle become Beowulf caesura Callimachus Catullus character classical comes complex contrast Dante Dante's death destiny diction earth echo Eclogues effect emotional end-stopped epic poem epithet feeling fictive figure fire Georgics give gods half-line Hector Helen hero hero's hexameter Homer human Iliad imagined implied ivory gate language light literal lyric meaning Menelaus metaphor Milton mortality moves mystery myth narrative natural ness Nestor norm Odysseus once pain Paradise Lost particular Patroklos pattern Phaeacians physical poem's poet poetic poetry precision present Priam Propertius Purgatory refined style rhetorical rhyme rhythm rhythmic Roland Satan Scyld sense shepherd simile simple single souls speaks speech spiritual stands statement structure syllables syntactic syntax Theocritus tion transcends Trojans trope Troy umbrae Unferth verb Vergil Vergilian verse voice weeping whole words wounded Zeus