Word: iambic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alexander Pope's famous and munificently rewarded translation (1725) in heroic couplets (iambic pentameter) was a polished poem, but no more an equivalent to Homeric Greek (dactylic hexameter) than a silver-headed cane is to a flight of arrows...
...poet, Francophobe and "passionate lover" of all things Germanic, dreamed of Burgundian knights of old, of Gundicar and Gunderic, who, coming from Germany, carved a kingdom for themselves in the bosom of degenerate Gaul. In the summer he pruned his grapevines, hunted Germanic relics on his land, and penned iambic attacks on the Latin descendants of those Gauls who finally crushed the flower of Burgundian knighthood...