Complete Poems of Edgar Allan PoeHeritage Press, 1943 - 214 pages |
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Page 155
... feet of the Greek Prosodies became exhausted . Not so ; these remaining feet have no existence except in the brains of the scholiasts . It is needless to imagine men inventing these things , and folly to explain how and why they ...
... feet of the Greek Prosodies became exhausted . Not so ; these remaining feet have no existence except in the brains of the scholiasts . It is needless to imagine men inventing these things , and folly to explain how and why they ...
Page 158
... feet alone must necessarily have been confined , would have led , after a very brief interval , to the trial and immediate adoption of artificial feet - that is to say , of feet not constituted each of a single word , but two or even ...
... feet alone must necessarily have been confined , would have led , after a very brief interval , to the trial and immediate adoption of artificial feet - that is to say , of feet not constituted each of a single word , but two or even ...
Page 162
... feet may be varied at will , and nearly at random , by the occasional introduction of equiva- lent feet - that is to say , feet the sum of whose syllabic times is equal to the sum of the syllabic times of the distinctive feet . Thus the ...
... feet may be varied at will , and nearly at random , by the occasional introduction of equiva- lent feet - that is to say , feet the sum of whose syllabic times is equal to the sum of the syllabic times of the distinctive feet . Thus the ...
Contents
The Editors Commentary | 2 |
Spirits of the Dead | 14 |
A Dream | 22 |
Copyright | |
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