| 单词 | heroic couplet |
| 例句 | Parnell, in the tradition of Dryden and Pope, tidies the metre into heroic couplets. Poem of the week: Pervigilium Veneris 2011-03-21T11:04:18Z He wrote in a smooth, carefully polished style, usually adhering to the traditional forms of English poetry, such as iambic pentameter, heroic couplets and rhyme. Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Deployed in his sparkling heroic couplets, the arguments and summaries are alive with wit, verbal agility and good sense. Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z Rhyming in heroic couplets, the poem takes its inspiration from Alexander Pope’s 18th-century mock-heroic work “The Dunciad,” which depicts journalists worshiping the goddess “Boredom.” University of Chicago professor satirizes abortion supporters in Telegram poetry group 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z It is owing to this, in part, that the heroic couplet is so often required to give, in translation, the full value of a single Homeric hexameter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The use of the heroic couplet was its distinguishing mark; of course, an imitation of French practice. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z He writes in the heroic couplet, which he manœuvres with great ease and smoothness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The poem has little interest at the present day, except as a proof that the heroic couplet was written with smoothness and polish before the days of Pope. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z He chose the heroic couplet, and in handling it reversed the settled practice of more than a century. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The old-fashioned formal heroic couplet, with rhyme, in which the following 202 passage appears translated, is not inapposite to the artificial cast and style of the original. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The use of the Alexandrine in the heroic couplet, he avers, gives variety and energy. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Like most of his contemporaries he shows at times a strange insensibility to smooth rhythm in the heroic couplet. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Yet they strove in the main to follow the gleam in poetry, to reinstate imagination upon its throne, and to substitute the singing voice for the rhetorical recitative of the heroic couplet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z This is in Hunt’s reformed heroic couplet: the rest are in a chirruping and gossiping anapaestic sing-song which is perhaps the writer’s most congenial vein. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z The virtues of blank verse are the virtues of rhythmic prose, which is still freer and more natural than blank verse, just as blank verse is preferable to the heroic couplet. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Monkhouse pointed out that Keats and Shelley, more than Hunt, reaped the rewards of his revivification of the heroic couplet. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The "Fragments of College Exercises" show a futile attempt to wield the heroic couplet with sonorous rhetoric. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z His power over the heroic couplet or quatrain is shown in his fable, Mother Hubbard’s Tale, and in his curious verse memoir, Colin Clout; both of which are medleys of satire and flattery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Soon after Dryden’s abandonment of heroic couplets in tragedy, he found new and more congenial work for his favourite instrument in satire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" The highest form of satire in all the prose writers is poetry, as much so as if put in the heroic couplets of Pope or the ottava rima of Byron's Vision of Last Judgment. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The Introduction to the Poetical Works of 1832 contains a concise and technical statement of Hunt’s theory of the heroic couplet. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The normal type, as it may almost be called, of English versification is the metre of ten-syllabled rhymed lines designated as heroic couplet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" The problem of the relative values of rimed and unrimed verse will come up in connection with the history of the heroic couplet and of blank verse. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History These last poems, written in the heroic couplet, contain some of the finest passages in Drayton’s writings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" This poem, written in heroic couplets, shows a great advance in individuality, and resembles, in its habit of personifying qualities of the mind, the riper lyrics of its author. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" A study of the heroic couplet from Dryden to Shelley based on two hundred lines from each poet has yielded the results indicated in the table on the following page. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z This is an absolutely correct example of the heroic couplet, which ultimately reached such majesty in the hands of Dryden and such brilliancy in those of Pope. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" The most important discussion of the influence of Waller on English poetry, and on the heroic couplet in particular, is found in Mr. Gosse's book, From Shakespeare to Pope. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It likewise borrowed from France that garb of rhyme which the English drama had so long abandoned, and which now reappeared in the heroic couplet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" I the more gladly quote instances like those of Dryden, to illustrate the points in question, because they are specimens of the very highest kind of writing in the heroic couplet upon subjects not heroical. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Keats, following the lead of Hunt, used the free heroic couplet in several of the 1817 poems with a license even greater than Hunt’s. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z They were in verse—in the heroic couplet, to which a good deal of point might have been imparted; but advantage was not taken of the opportunity. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects "The heroic couplet," says Mr. Gosse, "was never employed, even by Pope himself, with more melody than by Goldsmith in this poem." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Dryden’s next poem in heroic couplets was in a different strain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" The metrical structure is beyond reproach in taste and fluency, the regular and spirited heroic couplets affording a refreshing contrast to the harsh and languid measures of the day. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 His next poem of any consequence, The Last Day, written in heroic couplets, and filling three books, is correct, or fairly so, in versification, and execrable in taste. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) It consists of 724 lines, and is written in heroic couplets—that style of poetic composition in which Pope excelled all others. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Dr. Wood emphasizes the probable influence of the French poets on these early heroic couplets, calling attention to the fact that Sandys was in France in 1610. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It was natural, therefore, that he should offer his boy to the strait-laced Muses of Queen Anne's time; that the precocious boy should lisp in heroic couplets, and that he should endeavor to be satirical. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Opening the issue is an excellent poem in heroic couplets by Mrs. Stella L. Tully of Mountmellick, Ireland, a new member of the United. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The poem does not prove Hill to be a poet, but it shows his command of the heroic couplet. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) This metre is sometimes interposed among heroic couplets. A Handbook of the English Language Mr. Courthope thinks that in this speech from the Iliad, Pope "perhaps attains the highest level of which the heroic couplet is capable." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History People were weary of the heroic couplet, and turned eagerly to these hurried verses, that went on their way with the sharp tramp of moss-troopers, and heated the blood like a drum. Lady of the Lake "Hope," by Marguerite Sisson, is commendable for its use of that noble but neglected measure, the heroic couplet. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 He was able only to play on one instrument, the heroic couplet. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) The heroic couplet was then the favorite measure. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Waller: Battle of the Summer Islands, 187*; Go, Lovely Rose, 89*; influence on heroic couplet, 187-190; Of the Danger of his Majesty, etc., English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In the Odyssey he chose the heroic couplet, which never can give the rise and fall of the hexameter. A History of Elizabethan Literature The heroic couplet, which was the last word in poetical expression in the age of Queen Anne, we consider to-day as little more than a mechanical jingle. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life The heroic couplet, now too much derided, is a form of this kind. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory The episodes are omitted, with the exception of the Sigemund episode, one-half of which is translated into heroic couplets, and the Finn episode, which is referred to in a single stanza which paraphrases the story. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography It was verse of this kind which, as Mr. Gosse observes, justified the introduction of the heroic couplet in all its strictness. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He possesses a command of the overlapped heroic couplet, which for sweep and rush of rhythm cannot be surpassed anywhere. A History of Elizabethan Literature Lamia, like Endymion, is written in the heroic couplet, but the difference in style is very marked. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 As in the seventeenth century, the heroic couplet was the predominant form in translations. Early Theories of Translation In the present composition I have attempted not the most difficult, but, perhaps, the best adapted measure to our language, the good old and now neglected heroic couplet. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 Browning has made of the alexandrine in this poem an almost new measure, hardly more like the alexandrine couplet of earlier days than the measure of Sordello is like the "heroic couplet" proper. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The choice of blank verse for Paradise Lost established that metre in formidable rivalry to the heroic couplet, so that it became the usual metre for long poems of a reflective or descriptive cast. Milton Between 1664 and 1678 it became the fashion, partly as a reaction against the liberties of the late Elizabethan blank verse, and partly under French influence, to write drama in heroic couplets. The Principles of English Versification The line of the heroic couplet is not long enough to reproduce the hexameter, and Virgil is especially succinct. Early Theories of Translation "I know, but she writes his heroic couplets, too!" Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Beaumont, J., on heroic couplet, 190 f.; verse of, 191 n. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Arlington in "wise passivity" submitted to the infliction, and with feigned pleasure followed the torturer's voice, delivering page after page of solemn science in polished heroic couplets. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett It owes its place to its sustained vigour, and the fact that the heroic couplet is in the hands of a master. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor IV of The Life of Our Blessed Lord he incorporated a whole passage of Milton's blank verse in the midst of his heroic couplets. Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Apart from the "matter" of his satire, Dryden laid this department of letters under a mighty obligation through the splendid service he rendered by the first successful application of the heroic couplet to satire. English Satires In the couplet of Keats, and of a number of his successors, we have a really different measure from the "heroic couplet" proper. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In Southey's hands the blank verse, which in the last century had been almost an ear-mark of the romanticising schools, is far more classical than the heroic couplet which Morris writes. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century But though the heroic couplet may have conveyed to Dryden's age something of the effect of the Virgilian hexameter, it does nothing of the kind to us. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor He insists, too, that great thought cannot be contained within the untroubled cadences of the heroic couplet. 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation For the blank verse of "The Seasons" is a blank verse which has been passed through the strainer of the heroic couplet. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Odes.—Dryden has been regarded as the first who used the heroic couplet with entire mastery. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction And the heroic couplet in English usage corresponds very closely to the French alexandrine. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Lastly, the so-called heroic couplet is native to England; at any rate, it is in no way related to Italian metre. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Even the heroic couplets of his poem on "Poetry" aim rather at pseudo-Pindaric diffuseness than at epigrammatic concentration of statement. Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) It has been mentioned that "Paradise Lost" did much to keep alive the tradition of English blank verse through a period remarkable for its bigoted devotion to rhyme, and especially to the heroic couplet. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century But Mr. Saintsbury evidently loves the heroic couplet for itself alone. The Art of Letters These were in the heroic couplets of Pope. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century The verse employed is the heroic couplet, the favorite verse of the eighteenth-century poets. Selections from Five English Poets He prattled on in heroic couplets from hour to hour, recording the tiny incidents of his life. Gossip in a Library The imitation of Spenser was only one instance of a readiness to lay aside the heroic couplet in favor of other kinds which it had displaced, and in the interests of greater variety. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century The leading literary invention of the period—after that of the heroic couplet for verse—was the prose periodical essay. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Hunt took Dryden's "Fables" as his model in versification, employing the heroic couplet with the frequent variation of the triplet and the alexandrine. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century It is difficult in polishing the heroic couplet not to produce the impression of seeking epigrammatic point. English Men of Letters: Crabbe In his hands the heroic couplet sings, and laughs, and chats, and thunders. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems Even the heroic couplet as written by earlier poets was felt to have been too loose in structure. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Gray, studious in his college at Cambridge, is exercising his fastidious talent; Collins' sequestered, carefully nurtured muse is silent; a host of minor poets are riding Pope's poetic diction, and heroic couplet to death. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge It is the heroic couplet, the same form exactly in which Pope wrote his major productions. Robert Browning: How to Know Him The heroic couplet controlled him to the end of his life, and there is no doubt that it was not merely timidity that made him confine himself to the old beaten track. English Men of Letters: Crabbe I cannot forget that David Mallet tried to smoothen Hamlet's soliloquy by jamming it into the heroic couplet. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century He is noted for his political satires, for his vigorous use of the heroic couplet, for his modern prose style, and for his literary criticisms. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived The heroic couplet in which it was cast was the standard metre. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Keats wrote Endymion in the heroic couplet—the very measure employed by Pope. Robert Browning: How to Know Him Indeed he was hampered, as Wordsworth was not, by a lifelong adherence to a metre—the heroic couplet—with which this same poetic diction was most closely bound up. English Men of Letters: Crabbe It is written in the heroic couplet, written with a fatal fluency; not good enough and not bad enough to be interesting. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century In almost all its features it may be illustrated by the heroic couplet of Pope. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Though written in heroic couplets, we hardly consider this as a poem but rather as a storehouse of critical maxims. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World Here are six fine verses, in the heroic couplet, from An Hymn of the Resurrection. England's Antiphon He despised looseness of style, considered blank verse unfinished, and cultivated what seemed to him the more polished elegance of the heroic couplet. English Poets of the Eighteenth Century In The Woman with the Dead Soul, he showed once more the musical possibilities latent in the heroic couplet, which Pope had used with such monotonous brilliance. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Our own heroic couplet is a case in point. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Dryden accepted this excellent rule for his prose, and adopted the heroic couplet, as the next best thing, for the greater part of his poetry. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World It is the first specimen I have given in the heroic couplet. England's Antiphon In the case of Young—as later in that of Cowper—this is the more remarkable, because his Satires show him to have had complete command of the mechanism of the heroic couplet. English literary criticism The Deserted Village, like The Traveller, is written in the heroic couplet which, since the days of Dryden, had held its ground as the best form of English poetry. English Literature for Boys and Girls The English heroic couplet, managed as Cowper has managed it, is surely quite equal to representing all the various changes of mood and temper which find their embodiment successively in the Horatian hexameter. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry Poets turned from the noble blank verse of Shakespeare and Milton, from the variety and melody which had characterized English poetry since Chaucer's day, to the monotonous heroic couplet with its mechanical perfection. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World Many long and elaborate religious poems I have not even mentioned, because I cannot favour extracts, especially in heroic couplets or blank verse. England's Antiphon To the peculiar spirit of the heroic drama—to its strength as well as to its weakness—no metrical form could have been more closely adapted than the heroic couplet. English literary criticism The day of the heroic couplet is done; with Burns we come back to nature. English Literature for Boys and Girls What correctness can we expect from a journal whose tomahawk-man, when scalping the corpse of Matthew Arnold, deliberately applies the term "sonnet" to some thirty lines in heroic couplets? The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 These lugubrious effusions, all in blank verse or in the heroic couplet, represented, in its most redundant form, the artistic theology of the middle of the eighteenth century. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments The heroic couplet was then the favourite measure. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 In the drama the triumph of the heroic couplet was for the moment complete; but it was short-lived. English literary criticism Dryden did not invent the heroic couplet, but it was he who first made it famous. English Literature for Boys and Girls What is unnatural appears less unnatural in that species of verse than in lines which approach more nearly to common conversation; and in the management of the heroic couplet Dryden has never been equalled. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 They were dear to the eighteenth century, and, much more than the heroic couplet, are the distinctive metre of that age. Hearts of Controversy Like Dryden, Pope wrote in the heroic couplet, and in his hands it became much more neat and polished than ever it did in the hands of the older poet. English Literature for Boys and Girls It was in The Siege of Rhodes, of which the first part was published in 1656, that the heroic couplet, after an interval of about sixty years, made its first reappearance on the English stage. English literary criticism This is called the classical school, and the rime which the classical poets used is called the heroic couplet. English Literature for Boys and Girls His tragedies in rhyme, however worthless in themselves, had at least served the purpose of nonsense-verses; they had taught him all the arts of melody which the heroic couplet admits. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 It is not written in Dryden's favorite heroic couplet but in blank verse. English Literature for Boys and Girls And that it should be so airy is a triumph of Pope's genius, for it is written in the heroic couplet, one of the most mechanical forms of English verse. English Literature for Boys and Girls But the fashion was set; and within ten years the heroic couplet and the heroic drama had swept everything before them. English literary criticism And when you come to read this play you will find that, master as Dryden was of the heroic couplet, he could write, too, when he chose, fine blank verse. English Literature for Boys and Girls Both poems were done in the fashionable heroic couplet, and Pope made so much money by them that he was able to live in comfort ever after. English Literature for Boys and Girls Even had he been able to enter into the true spirit he would have found it hard to keep that spirit in his translation, using as he did the artificial heroic couplet. English Literature for Boys and Girls |
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