How To Use Dithyramb In A Sentence
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Edgar Allan Poe, I am fond of believing, earned as a critic a good deal of the excess of praise that he gets as a romancer and a poet, and another over-estimated American dithyrambist, Sidney Lanier, wrote the best textbook of prosody in English; [31] but in general the critical writing done in the United States has been of a low order, and most
A Book of Prefaces
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He suddenly bursts into a dithyramb on what it is to be such a thing as a Canadian poet.
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His Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685, is subtitled ditirambo, the Greek dithyramb being a choral lyric in praise of Dionysus.
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Epic, and tragic poetry, and also comedy and dithyramb and most flute and harp-music, are all by and large imitations.
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Even Shelton had waxed philosophical and dithyrambic at his passing.
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Let us recapitulate, since the steps Socrates is taking are so important for his critique of poetry (it is noteworthy that at several junctures, Socrates generalizes his results from epic to dithyrambic, encomiastic, iambic, and lyric poetry; 533e5-534a7, 534b7-c7).
Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry
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The dithyramb (_dithyrambos_ or Bacchic step, [- '' -]) brought a new step to the dance and therefore a new element into poetry, for all dances were choric, that is to say they were sung as well as danced.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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Plato observes that the types were once distinct: a hymn would not be confused with a dirge, dithyramb, or paean.
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Lyric poetry This included dithyrambs, encomia, paeans, and hymns.
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The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of the transformed.
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During the month of August 1881 my brother resolved to reveal the teaching of the Eternal Recurrence, in dithyrambic and psalmodic form, through the mouth of Zarathustra.
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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In that book we have a man whose instincts in more ways than one were those of a criminal, held up for our admiration, in the same way that the same writer fell into dithyrambic praise over a villain called Francia, a former President of Paraguay.
A Book of Remarkable Criminals
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As already noted, Socrates classifies poetry (dithyrambic and tragic poetry are named) as a species of rhetoric.
Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry
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Ask him about the weather and he delivers a an eccentric little dithyramb on whether or not karate can be viewed with the third eye.
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Such is the case with Herrick's ‘Fare-well to Sack,’ a dithyrambic ode.
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Youth only can understand all that lies in the dithyrambic outpourings of youth when, after a stormy siege, of the most frantic folly and coolest common-sense, the heart finally yields to the assault of the latest comer, be it hope, or despair, as some mysterious power determines.
The Deserted Woman
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So theologian Harvey Cox, in his dithyramb on the resurrection of Dionysus, applauded us for ushering in a new age.
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Its structure was polyphonic and its language was dithyrambic.
THE TATTOOED GIRL
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Lyric poetry included dithyrambs, encomia, paeans, and hymns.
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Such an author will at one moment write in a dithyrambic vein, as though he were tipsy; at another, nay, on the very next page, he will be pompous, severe, profoundly learned and prolix, stumbling on in the most cumbrous way and chopping up everything very small; like the late Christian Wolf, only in a modern dress.
The Art of Literature
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After the politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts.
The Apology
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He is quite right that Wilde is in the play as a foil to Housman, and elevates the "dithyrambic" artist at the expense of the scrupulous scholar.
'The Invention of Love': An Exchange
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We are met almost at the threshold by a colossal epic, Creation, Man and the Messiah (1830); by songs that turn into dithyrambic odes, by descriptive pieces which embrace the universe, by all the froth and roar and turbidity of genius, with none of its purity and calm.
Henrik Ibsen
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From time to time he'd been forced to wax dithyrambic even about the pretend engineers.
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My first act, in music strongly characterized, was Tasso; the second in tender harmony, Ovid; and the third, entitled Anacreon, was to partake of the gayety of the dithyrambus.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau
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Heine’s mental history, but because they are a specimen of his power in that kind of dithyrambic writing which, in less masterly hands, easily becomes ridiculous:
The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete