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... words . " Words should be reso- nant ; they should have a good , round , mouth - filling quality . Nor should the poet fail to take into account the factor of sound in the ordering of words . Thus , Dryden commends Virgil because he ...
... words . " Words should be reso- nant ; they should have a good , round , mouth - filling quality . Nor should the poet fail to take into account the factor of sound in the ordering of words . Thus , Dryden commends Virgil because he ...
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... words spill over into the next stanza . Thus , the notorious expression simplex munditie constitutes what the editors of Horace call an addendum , a phrase or clause which prolongs the rhythmical impulse beyond the reader's expect- ancy ...
... words spill over into the next stanza . Thus , the notorious expression simplex munditie constitutes what the editors of Horace call an addendum , a phrase or clause which prolongs the rhythmical impulse beyond the reader's expect- ancy ...
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... words as Horace had used , although he plainly put himself under the most severe kind of restraint . But Latin brevitas is not simply a happy linguistic accident . Latin words work harder than English words ; their meanings shade off ...
... words as Horace had used , although he plainly put himself under the most severe kind of restraint . But Latin brevitas is not simply a happy linguistic accident . Latin words work harder than English words ; their meanings shade off ...
Contents
Chapter One FIT AUDIENCE | 1 |
Chapter Two NOT LESS BUT MORE HEROIC ས ༤ | 40 |
Chapter Four THE VEIL OF INNOCENCE | 67 |
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Achilles Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneas Aeneid allusion amorous authors beauty bee simile begins blank verse Book of Paradise borrowing Burning Lake Carthage comparison context death describes device Dido Dido's dream Dryden Earth edition editors English epic episode epithet Eve's eyes fact Fall Fallen Angels Fourth Book Georgic glory gods grammar Greek Heaven Hell hero heroic Homer Homer and Virgil Horace Iliad imitation influence innocent Juno Jupiter kind language Latin lines literary London meaning metaphor Milton Criticism mind Mount Ida Neoptolemus note to P.L. numbers Odysseus Odyssey Ovid Paradise Lost parallel passage Phaethon Phoebus phrase poem poet poetic poetry quoted Raphael reader Renaissance rhetorical rhythmical Roman Salmoneus Satan schoolboy sense serpents shore simile spear speech Spenser structure style Tellus thee thir thou tion Tityos tradition translation Trojans Troy Turnus Typhon verbal echo Virgil Virgilian writes Zeus