Notes on the metrical semantics of Russian, French and German imitations of Janus Secundus’s Basium II
This article links Konstantin Batiushkov's poem Elysium (1810) to the tradition of poetic imitations of Janus Secundus's Basium II. A French equivalent for this poem's pythiambic distichs was invented by Ronsard (Chanson, 1578), who used cross-rhymed quatrains with regular alternation...
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Language: | English |
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University of Tartu Press
2012-09-01
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Series: | Sign Systems Studies |
Online Access: | https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/15791 |