Plato to Alexander Pope: Backgrounds of Modern CriticismWalter Sutton, Vivian Sutton Odyssey Press, 1966 - 243 pages |
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... measure . For the iambic is , of all measures , the most colloquial : we see it in the fact that conversa- tional speech runs into iambic form more frequently than into any other kind of verse - rarely into hexameters , and only when we ...
... measure . For the iambic is , of all measures , the most colloquial : we see it in the fact that conversa- tional speech runs into iambic form more frequently than into any other kind of verse - rarely into hexameters , and only when we ...
Page 64
... measure has proved its fitness by the test of experience . If a narrative poem in any other meter or in many meters were now composed , it would be found incongruous . For of all measures the heroic is the stateliest and the most ...
... measure has proved its fitness by the test of experience . If a narrative poem in any other meter or in many meters were now composed , it would be found incongruous . For of all measures the heroic is the stateliest and the most ...
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... measured prose . Now measure alone , in any modern language , does not constitute verse ; those of the Ancients in Greek and Latin consisted in quantity of words and a determinate number of feet . But when , by the in- undation of the ...
... measured prose . Now measure alone , in any modern language , does not constitute verse ; those of the Ancients in Greek and Latin consisted in quantity of words and a determinate number of feet . But when , by the in- undation of the ...
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