Название: A History of French Literature
Автор: Edward Dowden
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: Языкознание
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Gestes meant (1) deeds, (2) their history, (3) the heroic family.
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Assonance, i.e. vowel-rhyme, without an agreement of consonants.
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Verse of twelve syllables, with cesura after the sixth accented syllable. In the decasyllabic line the cesura generally followed the fourth, but sometimes the sixth, tonic syllable.
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The epopee composed in Provençal, sung but not transcribed, is wholly lost. The development of lyric poetry in the South probably checked the development of the epic.
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Not quite all, for certain borrowings were made from the correspondence of Alexander with Dindimus, King of the Brahmans, and from the Alexandri Magni iter a 1 2 3 Verse of twelve syllables, with cesura after the sixth accented syllable. In the decasyllabic line the cesura generally followed the fourth, but sometimes the sixth, tonic syllable. 4 The epopee composed in Provençal, sung but not transcribed, is wholly lost. The development of lyric poetry in the South probably checked the development of the epic. 5 Not quite all, for certain borrowings were made from the correspondence of Alexander with Dindimus, King of the Brahmans, and from the 6 Chrétien de Troyes is the first poet to tell of the love of Lancelot for the Queen. 7 The earlier "Romulus" was the name of the supposed author of the fables of Phædrus, while that of Phædrus was still unknown. 8 Two works of the fourteenth century, interesting in the history of manners and ideas, may here be mentioned—the 9 The 10 Books I.-VI., written 1488-94; Books VII., VIII., written 1494-95. 11 12 Derived from 13 This corporation, known as the 14 15 The "Baïfin verse," French not classical, is of fifteen syllables, divided into hemistichs of seven and eight syllables.