Excerpt from English Odes His tangled strophes and antistrophes. In the living lan guages, Italian was already well provided with stately lyrical forms of verse, the heritage to her of the Middle Ages, and it was in French that the first modern odes were written. In I 550 Ronsard published his original collection, with a quaint essay, in which he distinctly pointed to Pindar and the Greeks as the source of his inspiration. His odes, indeed, are singularly correct, and even monotonous, in form; strophe, antistrophe and ...
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Excerpt from English Odes His tangled strophes and antistrophes. In the living lan guages, Italian was already well provided with stately lyrical forms of verse, the heritage to her of the Middle Ages, and it was in French that the first modern odes were written. In I 550 Ronsard published his original collection, with a quaint essay, in which he distinctly pointed to Pindar and the Greeks as the source of his inspiration. His odes, indeed, are singularly correct, and even monotonous, in form; strophe, antistrophe and epode following in due order, without attention to what is almost as important, the variation of the length of different lines in each stanza. Having justified, however, by fifteen of these regular pieces, his determination to ishow le moyen de suivre Pindare, he lapsed into in dolence for the rest of his life, and wrote reams of poems that were only odes by critical courtesy. His laxity, not his learning, was imitated by various lyrists of the French decadence down to J. J. Rousseau and Escouchard Lebrun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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