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...dramatic writings are not altogether without merit. His description of the fire and pestilence in London gave evidence of a master mind, and his essay in defense of rhyme has the first step to a simplified and purified English...
...They spent a great part of their life in committing to memory an enormous number of verses, embracing the experience and the ideals of the people. To retain these the more surely in their minds a great number of mechanical devices were invented, and these devices, especially that of rhyme, have lasted to our own days...
...result of these wars. We may call the Highlands of Scotland the characteristic home of the Garlic branch, and Wales of the Cimbric branch. The Gallic Celts found in Fingal a hero worth succeeding King Arthur, and their poetry is largely devoted to his exploits. The Cimbric branch developed rhyme into something like the form in which we have it today. There are suspicions of rhyme in antecedent Arabic literature; and scattering hits also in Latin poetry. The Druids however were obliged to assist their memory in committing their religious verses, and rhyme, strong and unmistakeable, was first used...
...preface of the first volume Professor Norton sets forth briefly his reasons for choosing prose. The impossibility of adopting the "terza rima" which Dante used because of the paucity of rhyme words in English as compared with Italian throws out all chances of producing an English version of the Divine Comedy, which, even approximately, shall produce the effect of the original. Since the form of the translation must differ in the effect it produces from the original, is it better to use an English metre or English prose? Professor Norton has judged that the literal prose version which the clear...
...most ambitious efforts and certainly one of the best of his which has appeared in the Monthly. The metre in which it is written is a happy selection, the swing and rhythm suggesting the graceful evolutions and music of the ball-room. One or two slight errors of rhyme are noticeable, but they are pardonable in consideration of the wealth of poetic diction, delicacy of description, and aptness of similes which characterize the whole poem. "Tomorrow" is a meritorious epigram...