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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 10 Francis Meres, M. A.. Sketch of English Literature, Painting, and Music, up to September 1598. A comparative Discourse of our English Poets Painters and Musicians] with the Greek, Latin, and Italian Poets Painters and Musicians]. JS Greece had three poets of great antiquity, Orpheus, Linus, and Mus.eus; and Italy, other three ancient poets, Livius Andronicus, Ennius, and Plautus: so hath England three ancient poets, Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate. As Homer is reputed the Prince of Greek poets; and Petrarch of Italian poets: so Chaucer is accounted the god of English poets. As Homer was the first that adorned the Greek tongue with true quantity: so william Langland, the author of] Piers Plowman was the first that observed the true quantity of our verse without the curiosity of rhyme. .] English Writers Of Latin Verse, n Ovid writ a Chronicle from the beginning of the world to his own time; that is, to the reign of Augustus the Emperor: so hath Harding the Chronicler (after his manner of old harsh rhyming) from Adam to his time; that is, to the reign of King Edward IV. As Sotades Maronites, the Iambic poet, gave himself wholly to write impure and lascivious things: so Skelton (I know not for what great worthiness, surnamed the Poet Laureate) applied his wit to scurrilities and ridiculous matters; such as] among the Greeks were called Pantomimi, with us, buffoons. As Consalvo Perez, that excellent learned man, and secretary to King Philip II.] of Spain, in translating the Ulysses Odyssey] of Homer out of Greek into Spanish, hath, by good judgement, avoided the fault of rhyming, although he hath] not fully hit perfect and true versifying: so hath Henry Howard, that true and noble Earl of Surrey, in translating the fourth book of Virgil's jEneas: ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217810272 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217810276 |
| Weight | 1.00 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 In |
| List Price | $21.24 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 308 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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