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...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depended on the apparatus criticus of the se...

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........................................................ 212 FRAGMENTS OF THE EPIC CYCLE ................................................................... ...e Epigrams of Homer” (both attributed to Homer). Various: Fragments of the Epic Cycle (parts of which are some- times attributed to Homer), fragments ... ...e (parts of which are some- times attributed to Homer), fragments of other epic poems attributed to Homer, The Battle of Frogs and Mice, and The Conte... ...ONTAINS practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of He... ...NS practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod ... ...1 and 462-470, printed in the Oxford Text of 1912. Of the fragments of the Epic Cycle I have given only such as seemed to possess distinct importance ... ...dge. Sept. 9th, 1914. INTRODUCTION General The early Greek epic — that is, poetry as a natural and popu- lar, and not (as it became later) an artifici... ...lone are suitable for epic treatment. In its third period, therefore, epic poetry shows two diver- gent tendencies. In Ionia and the islands the epic ... ...truth, but we can, when we will, utter the truth’ (Theogony 26-27). Such a poetry could not be permanently successful, because the subjects of which i...

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...he final form was available in 1717 with the addition of Clarissa's speech on good humour. The poem satirizes a petty squabble by comparing it to the epic world of the gods. It was based on an incident recounted by Pope's friend, John Caryll. Arabella Fermor and her suitor, Lord Petre, were both from aristocratic recusant Catholic families at a period in England when under...

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...nce, while he was perhaps at the same time too much in his mere senses for poetry and yet too little in them for art. You would have got fairly near h... ...n per- sonal revelation, had been as unconsciously distinguished. This was poetry—it was also history—Mrs. Stringham thought, to a finer tune even tha... ...range countries, amid moun- tain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry— such being the mild adventures, the refinements of im- pression, th... ...ation below. That was the great thing with Milly—it was her characteristic poetry, or at least it was Susan Shepherd’s. “But she made a point,” the fo... ...efore him one of those rare cases of exaltation—food for fiction, food for poetry—in which a man’s fortune with the woman who doesn’t care for him is ... ...creation. It served her as the fine cloud that hangs about a goddess in an epic, and the young man was but vaguely to know at what point of the rest o...

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...t it lacks, which might have made it, in the hands of a poet, the glorious epic that France still awaits. But from me they must accept it as one of th... ... will be seen to harmonize with human phenomena, also vir- gin—at least to poetry—which here took place, the history of which it is our purpose to rel... ...ing and even then your thought cannot compass the wealth of beauty nor the poetry of this Norwegian coast. Can your thought be as vast as the ocean th... ...hing that can give an idea of this astounding work, full of the essence of poetry, if it is permissible to compare a work of faith with one of orienta... ...e distance which God has placed be- twixt the earth and the sun, the great epics of Klopstock, Milton, T asso, and Dante. This description, which serv... ...n science. Is not God the whole of science, the all of love, the source of poetry? Surely His riches are worthy of being coveted! His treasure is inex...

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...as, of course, professedly admired by all, but more admired than imitated. Epic poetry was out of fashion and we find many epigrams of this period—som... ...f course, professedly admired by all, but more admired than imitated. Epic poetry was out of fashion and we find many epigrams of this period—some by ... ... dragging in conventional and commonplace epithets and phrases peculiar to epic poetry. Callimachus was in accordance with the spirit of the age when ... ...ging in conventional and commonplace epithets and phrases peculiar to epic poetry. Callimachus was in accordance with the spirit of the age when he pr... ...e written the “Argonautica” out of bravado, to show that he could write an epic poem. But the influence of the age was too strong. Instead of the unit... ...m. But the influence of the age was too strong. Instead of the unity of an Epic we have merely a series of episodes, and it is the great beauty and po... ..., from which Apollonius has taken many details. The subject was one for an epic poem, for its unity might have been found in the working out of the ex...

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...e come out every week here, the worst of them better than all M. Chardon’s poetry put together. For pity’s sake, wait and com- pare! To-morrow, Friday... ...name pronounced by those who went by. “Ah!” he thought to himself, “she is Poetry.” What was Mme. de Bargeton in comparison with this an- gel in all t... ...a sono- rous phrase, summing up a materialistic epoch, and gilding it with poetry—then Anais felt all the truth of Chatelet’s dictum of the previous e... ...e lately his sister was present when M. de Rubempre read us some very fine poetry.” Felix de Vandenesse and de Marsay took leave of the Mar- quise d’E... ...ewspapers at Blosse’s reading-room, as well as new books and magazines and poetry, so as to keep himself in- formed of the movements of the day. And w... ...nalysis to the eighteenth century!—’The Novel,’ say sententiously, ‘is the Epic grown amusing.’ Instance Corinne, bring Mme. de Stael up to support yo... ...e the best ordered room, he remarked on this jokingly. “But Braulard is an epicure,” said Lousteau; “his dinners are famous in dramatic literature, an...

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... president of the bank— Always looking forward to some leisure To write an epic novel of the war. Meanwhile friend of the great, and lover of letters,... ...of the republic, Bringing together into a dithyramb of recreative song The epic hopes of a people; At the same time Vulcan of sovereign fires, Where i... ...ugh a long sickness Coughing myself to death I read the Upanishads and the poetry of Jesus. And they lighted a torch of hope and intuition And desire ... ... Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but 131 Edgar Lee Masters unfortunately did not...

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...’s the meaning of this; and what, may I ask, is the intention of this—this epicene attire?” “Pantomime, sir. The Head gave us leave,” said Abanazar, a... ... bullied by King. Don’t you feel it?” “Let me alone! I can write some more poetry about him if I am, I suppose.” “Mad! Quite mad!” said Stalky to the ... ... give the beast a chance. You see I can always make him hop with some more poetry. He can’t report me to the Head, because it makes him ridiculous. (S... ...he interior, where he asked many questions. “Well, let’s have your beastly epic,” said Turkey, as they burst into the study, to find Beetle deep in Vi... ...e deep in Viollet-le-Duc and some drawings. “We’ve had no end of a lark.” “Epic? What epic? I’ve been down to the coastguard.” “No epic? Then we will ... ...e did it very scientifically, and the execution of a hundred boys would be epic—immense. “It’s all right, Head Sahib. We know,” said Crandall, as the ... ...Oh, yes,” he replied in his softest tones. “I was at the tail of that—that epic. Don’t you chaps know?” We did not—Infant, McTurk, and I; and we call...

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...ong wished to know you, Mr. Coverdale, and to thank you for your beautiful poetry, some of which I have learned by heart; or rather it has stolen into... ... contrary, now to produce something that shall really deserve to be called poetry,—true, strong, natural, and sweet, as is the life which we are going... ... fastened with artificial roses, that distin guish the pastoral people of poetry and the stage. In outward 49 Hawthorne show, I humbly conceive, we ... ...peak through your nose, and with a drawl. Pray, if you really did make any poetry to day, let us hear it in that kind of utterance!” “Coverdale has g... ...s now,” said Hollingsworth, who never had the slightest appreciation of my poetry. “Just think of him penning a sonnet with a fist like that! There is... ...piritual light! In due course of ages, we must all figure heroically in an epic poem; and we will ourselves—at least, I will—bend unseen over the futu...

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... of the English book- buying public. Election-seasons called him to ballad-poetry on behalf of the T ory party. Dialer possessed undoubted flu- ency, ... ...a plot. He did the work as easily as he ate his daily bread. Adrian was an epicurean; one whom Epicurus would have scourged out of his garden, certain... ...an; one whom Epicurus would have scourged out of his garden, certainly: an epicurean of our modern notions. T o satisfy his appetites without rashly s... ...ate is being decided now.” “So is everybody’s, my dear Austin!” yawned the epicu- rean. “Yes, but this boy is at present under our guardianship— under... ...succulent air at that employment. How could he pretend to the relish of an epicure when he was painfully endeavouring to masticate The Devil’s mouthfu... ...ing light of a memory behind him. So much is secure.” To talk nonsense, or poetry, or the dash between the two, in a tone of profound sincerity, and t... ... foreseen it, he said. But when he came to hear that the youth was writing poetry, his wounded heart had its reasons for being much disturbed. “Surely... ...dy Blandish, “you knew he scribbled?” “A very different thing from writing poetry,” said the bar- onet. “No Feverel has ever written poetry.” “I don’t... ...y them, stimulated by innumerable sad victories; and every love-tale is an Epic Par of the upper and lower powers. I wish good fairies were a little m...

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...certain lamentable tales of the bound (din- ing-room) table heroes; of the epic of the pewter platoons, and the romance-cycle of “Gaston Le Fox,” whic... ...Mrs. Emily Wessels, aunt of Laura and Page. 4 The Pit The T rilogy of The Epic of the Wheat includes the fol- lowing novels: The Octopus, a Story of ... ...percentages and all, when I might be hearing Sheldon Corthell talk art and poetry and stained glass. I declare, I never have any luck.” At quarter to ... ...common multitude, a whole people, the mass. Fiction and painting, and even poetry, are affairs of the classes, reaching the groups of the educated. Bu... ...is stuff stood in the way of it— well—it could go to the devil! That’s not poetry maybe, but it’s the truth.” Laura came over to where her husband lay... ...and the “back library,” a small room where Mrs. Cressler kept her books of poetry. As Laura entered the room she was surprised to see Mr. Cressler the...

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...e he betrayed only by an increasing tendency towards vagueness, symbolism, poetry and toleration. Eleanor seemed satisfied with his exposition; she di... ...knowledge of vestments, but he had never really cared for anything but the poetry of ornaments, and he had to work strenuously to master the legal sid... ...id this much for countless minds that for the first time they realized the epic quality of history and their own relationship to the destinies of the ...

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...fects, the symbols of which exist in two grand figures of ancient slavery, Epictetus and Spartacus,—hatred and evil feelings on the one hand, resignat... ...ified that I, a poet, could not give myself a Beatrice, a Laura, except in poetry. A pure and noble woman is like an unstained conscience,— she repres... ... been dusted. In one corner of the room were a pile of shoes which need an epic to describe them. The top of the bureau and that of the piano were enc...

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...st amount of miscellaneous reading, romances of chivalry, ballads, popular poetry, chronicles, for which he had no time or opportu- nity except in the... ...een fairly naturalised in Spain, together with all the devices of pastoral poetry for investing with an air of novelty the idea of a dispairing shephe... ...the eternal struggle between the ideal and the real, between the spirit of poetry and the spirit of prose; and perhaps German phi- losophy never evolv... ...lf that he attacked and swept away. Of all the absurdities that, thanks to poetry, will be repeated to the end of time, there is no greater one than s... ... with these little books that are left?” “These must be, not chivalry, but poetry,” said the curate; and 78 Don Quixote – Part I opening one he saw i... ...e unrestricted range of these books enables the author to show his powers, epic, lyric, tragic, or comic, and all the moods the sweet and winning arts... ...ds the sweet and winning arts of poesy and oratory are capable of; for the epic may be written in prose just as well as in verse.” CHAPTER XLVIII In w...

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...pictures of dancing men with animals’ hairy legs and hoofs in an old thick poetry book belonging to my mother. Just fancy a nose that seemed to be pec... ...dulness on me, asserts that the modern vice or fastness (‘T rotting on the Epicene Border,’ he has it) is bred by apparently harmless practices of thi... ...writer who is not servile and has insight, must coin from his own mint. In poetry we are rich enough; but in prose also we owe everything to the licen... ...e you examples? It is not necessary. Our simplest prose style is nearer to poetry with us, for this reason, that the poets have made it. Read French p... ...a ‘done’ Briton, have shudders for Ipley. We relinquished the stream of an epic in turning away from these mighty drums. Mr. Pole stood questioning al... ...it, that if she were a Catholic she would not seem so gross?” “Some of the poetry of that religion would descend upon her, possibly,” returned Mr. Bar... ...ore musical than mirth,” said he. “Surely there is more grace in sadness!” Poetry, sculpture, and songs, and all the Arts, were brought forward in mou...

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...ad; but though I took down many interesting authors, old and new, history, poetry, and story-book, this notion of my father’s hand of writing stuck to... ...er. “Well, well,” said the lawyer, when I had quite done, “this is a great epic, a great Odyssey of yours. You must tell it, sir, in a sound Latinity ...

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...ng, it inspires vague desires. The forest odors, beloved of souls that are epicures of poesy, who delight in the tiny mosses, the noxious fungi, the m... ...e calum- niated than you can the spoilers and the despoiled. It is only in epic poems that men curse each other before they kill. The savage, and the ... ...l image, not even a didactic effort! he is ignorant of the very meaning of poetry. He calls the sky by its name. He says ‘moon,’ bluntly, instead of n... ...hing of the modern Pleiades, not even their names. A hundred Gourdons made poetry under the Empire, and yet they tell us it was a period that neglecte... ...r carbuncle eyes as they sat upon the water- cresses. The sweet and simple poetry of Nature permeated these two souls surfeited with the conventional ...

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...tily adapted the sentiment to the occasion. I call “Welcome little Dombey” Poetry, myself!’ ‘Is that the device?’ inquired her brother. ‘That is the d... ...d to her!—though not so softly but that Paul heard him say this remarkable poetry, ‘Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne’er could injure Y ... ..., it went gleam- ing where men were thickest, like the hero’s helmet in an epic battle. For a whole week the Captain read of all the found and missing... ...rom commonplace! Oh dear! If they would only leave us a little more of the poetry of existence in these terrible days!’ Mrs Skewton was looking sharp ... ...at incorrigible creature: who was the most barbarous infi- del in point of poetry: good to be in such company. This chance arrangement left Mr Dombey ...

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...s been undertaken in the belief that a literal translation of as famous an epic as the Nibelungenlied would be acceptable to the general reading publi... ...liest critics fitly called it a German “Iliad”, for, like this great Greek epic, it goes back to the remotest times and unites the monumental fragment... ...itizen class, whose ideals and testes lay in a different direc- tion, this epic shared the fate of many others of its kind, and was relegated to the d... ... courtly etiquette. He seems also to have been acquainted with the courtly epics of Heinrich von V eldeke and Hartman von Ouwe, but his poem is free f... ...t this date. The two Low German poems which probably form the basis of our epic may have been united about 1150. It was revised and translated into Hi... ...eveals, it is nevertheless the grandest product of Middle High German epic poetry, and deservedly the most popular poem of older German literature. It... ...egret or remorse. It resembles the older “Spielmannsdichtung”, or minstrel poetry, in the terseness and vigor of its language and in the lack of poeti... ...so frequently denotes the source, or is the personification of the muse of poetry. (3) “Kriemhild” is the Upper German form of the Frankish “Grimhild”...

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...ne. He then returned to Smyrna, where he applied him- self to the study of poetry. [Note: I.e. both of composing and reciting verses for as Blair obse... ...the Greek leschai.] of the old men, and delighted all by the charms of his poetry. Encouraged by this favourable recep- tion, he declared that, if the... ...of the verses of the poet passing in his name. Having collected sufficient poetry to be profitable, Thestorides, like some would-be-literary publisher... ...o have written the Batrachomyomachia, or Battle of the Frogs and Mice, the Epicichlidia, and some other minor works.] Besides the satisfaction of driv... ... the town of Chios he established a school where he taught the precepts of poetry. “To this day,” says Chan- dler, [Note: Chandler, T ravels, vol. i.... ...erriment. These loose songs were not collected together, in the form of an epic poem, till about Peisistratus’ time, about five hundred years after.” ... ... to be formed, we should be able to make a guess at the time when the old epic poems were first committed to writing. Now the period which may with t... ...tive hexameter, and poetical compositions having been transferred from the epical past to the affairs of present and real life. Such a change was im- ... ...arest approaching to the sense). It argued a new way of looking at the old epical treasures of the people as well as a thirst for new poetical effect;...