Excerpt from Thoughts in My Garden, Vol. 2 of 2 Professor Robinson Ellis, at page 14 of the preface to Poems of Catullus, ' remarking on the attempts to render Latin verse into the same English metre, says that 'tennyson's three specimens are, at least in English, still unique.' These specimens are of course the the 'alcaics on Milton, ' and the hendecasyllabics, printed at the end of the volume which contains Enoch Arden.' Now, whatever may be said of Boadicea, ' question less a fine poem in the manner of 'atys, ' its ...
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Excerpt from Thoughts in My Garden, Vol. 2 of 2 Professor Robinson Ellis, at page 14 of the preface to Poems of Catullus, ' remarking on the attempts to render Latin verse into the same English metre, says that 'tennyson's three specimens are, at least in English, still unique.' These specimens are of course the the 'alcaics on Milton, ' and the hendecasyllabics, printed at the end of the volume which contains Enoch Arden.' Now, whatever may be said of Boadicea, ' question less a fine poem in the manner of 'atys, ' its metre is not the galliambus. The maximum number of syllables in a Catullian galliambus is seventeen, whereas several of Mr. Tennyson's contain twenty. But an essay on the galliam bus is beyond the limits of these notes. Turning to Mr. Tennyson's second specimen, the fine Alcaics on Milton' 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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