A Study in Epic DevelopmentH. Holt, 1901 - 159 páginas |
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¹ Cf ¹Cf according Achilles action adventures Alboin ancient Andamanese appears Aristotle artistic Atea attained authority Beowulf central century ceremonial character Charlemagne chief clan Clovis conception corresponding criticism dance deeds distinct dramatic element embodiment ence epic poetry Ethnol existence expression father says furnish Gepid Germanic Godomar gods Greeks hero Heruli Hist Homeric epics Icelandic ideal Iliad illustration imitation improvisation Inapertwa incidents independence indicated individual influence Jebb king land legends literary literature London looms manifestations ment Minturno monarchic Moreover Mycenaean narrative and lyric national celebrations nature Nibelungenlied Njal Saga Odyssey Paris plot poet poetic species poétique poetry political organization popular present preserved Puluga Renaud Renaud de Montauban representative result Roland Saga Saxo Grammaticus Scaliger Sedna shows singer songs Spingarn spirit story struggle supra Tacitus Tanaoa tells tendency tion Trans transmitted tribes unity Whaw
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Página 90 - Celebrant carminibus antiquis, quod unum apud illos memoriae et annalium genus est, Tuistonem deum terra editum, et filium Mannum, originem gentis conditoresque. Manno tris filios assignant, e quorum nominibus proximi Oceano Ingaevones, medii Herminones, ceteri Istaevones vocentur.
Página 24 - I mean not here the prosody of a verse, which they could not but have hit on before among the rudiments of Grammar; but that sublime Art which in Aristotles Poetics, in Horace, and the Italian Commentaries of Castelvetro, Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true Epic Poem, what of a Dramatic, what of a Lyric, what Decorum is, which is the grand master-peece to observe.
Página 78 - The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Página 26 - JEneid the space of time, which is taken up by the action of each of those poems; but as a great part of Milton's story was transacted in regions that lie out of the reach of the sun and the sphere of day...
Página 25 - Tydides' fortitude, as Homer wrought them In his immortal fancy, for examples Of the heroic virtue. Or, as Virgil, That master of the Epic Poem, limn'd Pious .Eneas, his religious prince, Bearing his aged parent on his shoulders, Rapt from the flames of Troy, with his young son. And these he brought to practise and to use.
Página 54 - O father, if you knew how wretched I am you would come to me and we would hurry away in your boat over the waters. The birds look unkindly upon me the stranger; cold winds roar about my bed; they give me but miserable food. O come and take me back home. Aja.
Página 78 - They were his only songs. I heard them both regardless of expense. I did not understand them, because I did not know his language ; but they were fascinating things, and the human hand one had a passage in it which caused the singer to crawl on his hands and knees, round and round, stealthily looking this side and that, giving the peculiar leopard questing cough, and making the leopard mark on the earth with his doubled-up fist. Ah ! that was something like a song ! It would have roused a rock to...
Página 43 - Ma miya, ma miy, ma deya, Topang koyihetti mittigan yandah ? " " My departed one, my departed one, my God] Where art thou wandering ? " " This invocation appears to be used on all occasions when the intervention of the guardian spirits is required, in sickness, preparatory to hunting, etc. Sometimes, in the latter...
Página 59 - My dream was fulfilled, and I had traced out, not the poem alone, but the poet. I implored him to proceed. "Once we boys," he said, "went for tote some rice, and de niggerdriver, he keep a'callin' on us; and I say, 'O, de ole nigger-driver!' Den anudder said, 'Fust ting my mammy tole me was, notin' so bad as nigger-driver.' Den I made a sing, just puttin' a word, and den anudder word.