Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1 |
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Page 199
... verse ( his religious verse is some of it very like Dunbar's in the same vein ) , permitted himself the most ragged of rhymes , Dunbar's rudest verses show him an artistic master of clever rhymes and elaborate rhythms . He handles with ...
... verse ( his religious verse is some of it very like Dunbar's in the same vein ) , permitted himself the most ragged of rhymes , Dunbar's rudest verses show him an artistic master of clever rhymes and elaborate rhythms . He handles with ...
Page 266
... verse - making . Gabriel Harvey staggered his friend Spenser with his pedantic argu- ments against rhyme , and in favour of regulating English verse by the rules of classical prosody ( see page 332 ) . William Webbe , about whom little ...
... verse - making . Gabriel Harvey staggered his friend Spenser with his pedantic argu- ments against rhyme , and in favour of regulating English verse by the rules of classical prosody ( see page 332 ) . William Webbe , about whom little ...
Page 795
... verse - relieved him of this ; and when he reappeared with Absalom and Achitophel there was hardly a formal blemish left on his verse - for the uses of the triplet and the Alexandrine , to which he resorted to avoid monotony , cannot be ...
... verse - relieved him of this ; and when he reappeared with Absalom and Achitophel there was hardly a formal blemish left on his verse - for the uses of the triplet and the Alexandrine , to which he resorted to avoid monotony , cannot be ...
Contents
HALFHEATHEN POETRY | 7 |
LATIN WRITERS BEFORE ÆLFRED | 16 |
POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST | 23 |
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