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... verse. His narrative poem, Ruslan and Lyudmr'la (publ. I820), brought him Widespread fame and secured his place as the leading figure in Russian poetry. At about the same time a few mildly seditious verses led to his banishment from the ...
... verse. His narrative poem, Ruslan and Lyudmr'la (publ. I820), brought him Widespread fame and secured his place as the leading figure in Russian poetry. At about the same time a few mildly seditious verses led to his banishment from the ...
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... verses in late Old English, Early Middle English, and Middle English alliterative verse can be explained as vestiges of a metrical system that counted positions rather than accentual stresses. Middle English metrists have always debated ...
... verses in late Old English, Early Middle English, and Middle English alliterative verse can be explained as vestiges of a metrical system that counted positions rather than accentual stresses. Middle English metrists have always debated ...
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... verse in English. Freedom in verse is a relative and not an absolute prosodic phenomenon. One might escape the beat of the metronome by discovering the fluid cadences of Dante or Arnaut, by writing accentual rather than accentual-syllabic ...
... verse in English. Freedom in verse is a relative and not an absolute prosodic phenomenon. One might escape the beat of the metronome by discovering the fluid cadences of Dante or Arnaut, by writing accentual rather than accentual-syllabic ...
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Religious and Ethical Principles | 29 |
Characters and Drama | 58 |
The Poetical Texture | 88 |
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