The Loly Grail: With introd. and notes by G[eorge] C[ampbell] MacaulayMacmillan, 1893 - 86 pages |
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Page xix
... passage in which is described its triumphant conclusion . Nor again need the poet say much of those whose Quest was a hopeless failure from the first . The interest is concentrated on Percivale and Lancelot , and especially Percivale ...
... passage in which is described its triumphant conclusion . Nor again need the poet say much of those whose Quest was a hopeless failure from the first . The interest is concentrated on Percivale and Lancelot , and especially Percivale ...
Page xxiii
... passage will serve as an illustration of this characteristic . Let us take for example the passage beginning There rose a hill , ' Il . 489-539 . Here we have fifty - one lines of description , almost unequalled in vividness and ...
... passage will serve as an illustration of this characteristic . Let us take for example the passage beginning There rose a hill , ' Il . 489-539 . Here we have fifty - one lines of description , almost unequalled in vividness and ...
Page xxiv
... passage to the spiritual city , and of Lancelot at the castle of Carbonek . But when we pass from description to simile we have to note a remarkable and rather signifi- cant change in the poet's style . Whereas generally Tennyson's ...
... passage to the spiritual city , and of Lancelot at the castle of Carbonek . But when we pass from description to simile we have to note a remarkable and rather signifi- cant change in the poet's style . Whereas generally Tennyson's ...
Page xxvi
... passages of sustained alliteration as it would be easy to quote from the earliest idylls . It occurs , but in a more limited and generally less obvious form , and is often present as a source of harmony in the verse without at all ...
... passages of sustained alliteration as it would be easy to quote from the earliest idylls . It occurs , but in a more limited and generally less obvious form , and is often present as a source of harmony in the verse without at all ...
Page xxvii
... passage as the following , for example , the rhythmical effect is due almost wholly to the variation of iambic with trochaic at the beginning of the line , and the arrangement of the pauses of the verse : - ' For , waked at dead of ...
... passage as the following , for example , the rhythmical effect is due almost wholly to the variation of iambic with trochaic at the beginning of the line , and the arrangement of the pauses of the verse : - ' For , waked at dead of ...
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