At 08:53 PM 8/10/2004 +0100, Leofranc Holford-Strevens wrote: >Perhaps couplets (associated with the older Elizabethan drama) could not >come into their own until Italian, with its stanzaic epics, had been >displaced at the Restoration by French as the standard of modern >culture. But is there anything to the point in Dryden?
Dryden, in his preface to the Aeneid, says that stanzas are "all too lirical" for epic poetry. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] East Carolina University Virgil reception, discussion, documents, &c ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
