Excerpt from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, From Romances and Prose-Tracts of the Elizabethan Age: With Chosen Poems of Nicholas Breton Arcadia, it is undeniably disappointing. If we want to see how true a poet Sidney really was, we must go to the songs and sonnets of Astrophel and Stella, not to the Arcadia. In his romance he indulges his fondness for metrical experiments 3 he sports in hexameters, asclepiads, sapphics, etc. Feats of agility that quickly exhaust the reader's patience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books ...
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Excerpt from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, From Romances and Prose-Tracts of the Elizabethan Age: With Chosen Poems of Nicholas Breton Arcadia, it is undeniably disappointing. If we want to see how true a poet Sidney really was, we must go to the songs and sonnets of Astrophel and Stella, not to the Arcadia. In his romance he indulges his fondness for metrical experiments 3 he sports in hexameters, asclepiads, sapphics, etc. Feats of agility that quickly exhaust the reader's patience. 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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