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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... poets , that anyone concerned with the nature of poetry ought surely to include it in his thinking . Yet epic poetry has lost the critical preeminence it held from antiquity down to the times of Schlegel and Goethe , or Sainte - Beuve ...
... poets , that anyone concerned with the nature of poetry ought surely to include it in his thinking . Yet epic poetry has lost the critical preeminence it held from antiquity down to the times of Schlegel and Goethe , or Sainte - Beuve ...
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... poetic discourse for prose . At just about this time , too , the rhythms of poetry in hexameter and elegiac coup- let became more precise . Xenophanes in his own practice epitomizes the two movements of thought . He is a philosopher - a ...
... poetic discourse for prose . At just about this time , too , the rhythms of poetry in hexameter and elegiac coup- let became more precise . Xenophanes in his own practice epitomizes the two movements of thought . He is a philosopher - a ...
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A Study in Epic Poetry Albert Cook. poetry . But as a free choice , in the syncretic historicizing culture that is our own , and not in any way on terms like Homer's . Neither our free choice , nor Homer's own terms , were possible right ...
A Study in Epic Poetry Albert Cook. poetry . But as a free choice , in the syncretic historicizing culture that is our own , and not in any way on terms like Homer's . Neither our free choice , nor Homer's own terms , were possible right ...
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