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• Elegiac couplet — Elegiac couplets are a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than those of epic poetry. The ancient Romans frequently used elegiac couplets in love poetry, as in Ovid s Amores . As with heroic… …   Wikipedia

• elegiac — /el i juy euhk, ak, i lee jee ak /, adj. Also, elegiacal. 1. used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy. 2. expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains. 3. Class. Pros. noting a distich the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and …   Universalium

• elegiac — /ɛləˈdʒaɪək/ (say eluh juyuhk) adjective Also, elegiacal. 1. Classical Prosody denoting a distich the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or… …  

• elegiac — adj. & n. adj. 1 (of a metre) used for elegies. 2 mournful. n. (in pl.) verses in an elegiac metre. Phrases and idioms: elegiac couplet a pair of lines consisting of a dactylic hexameter and a pentameter, esp. in Greek and Latin verse.… …   Useful english dictionary

• elegiac — [ˌɛlɪ dʒʌɪək] adjective relating to or characteristic of an elegy. ↘wistfully mournful. noun (elegiacs) verses in an elegiac metre. Derivatives elegiacally adverb …   English new terms dictionary

• elegiac — el•e•gi•ac [[t]ˌɛl ɪˈdʒaɪ ək, æk, ɪˈli dʒiˌæk[/t]] adj. Also, el e•gi′a•cal. 1) pro used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy 2) expressing sorrow; mournful 3) pro (in classical prosody) noting a distich, the first line of which is a dactylic …   From formal English to slang

• elegiac —   n. Prosody, verse line of five dactyls with marked caesura; a. pertaining to or written in such verse line; mournful.    ♦ elegiac couplet, dactylic hexameter followed by dactylic pentameter.    ♦ elegiacs, n. verses written in elegaic metre or …   Dictionary of difficult words

• Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr — For the 19th century poet, see Robert Elis. Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr ( Cynddelw the Great Poet ; Middle Welsh: Kyndelw Brydyt or Cyndelw Brydyd Maur; fl. c. 1155–1200), in English also known as Kendall, was the court poet of Madog ap Maredudd, Owain …   Wikipedia

• Cornelius Gallus — Gaius Cornelius Gallus (ca. 70 BC – 26 BC), Roman poet, orator and politician, was born of humble parents at Forum Livii (Forlì)[1] in Italy. At an early age he moved to Rome, where he was taught by the same master as Virgil and Varius Rufus.… …   Wikipedia

• Literature in the Hoysala Empire — The Hoysala Empire (1025 ndash;1343), in what is now southern India, produced a large body of literature in the Kannada and Sanskrit languages.Kamath (2001), p. 132] The empire was established by Nripa Kama II, came into political prominence… …   Wikipedia

• Simonides of Ceos — ▪ Greek poet born c. 556 BC, Iulis, Ceos [now Kéa, Greece] died c. 468 BC, Acragas [now Agrigento, Sicily, Italy]       Greek poet, noted for his lyric poetry, elegiacs, and epigrams (epigram); he was an uncle of the Greek lyric poet Bacchylides …   Universalium