Re: While we're talking about language...

>From the article:
"In all these fictions, as in Byron's own, one readily discerns the shadow of Napoleon and the revolutionary ideal of genius paramount. Byron was simply the first, or the most successful among the first, to dramatize the attitudes of the new man, the unknown who risks life for glory."

I think I read a poem by Horace about a lone adventurer setting off to sea ("risks life for glory") when I was doing Latin. It's one of the Odes. I'll see if I can find it over the next few days... a comparison would be interesting to see if there are Horatian influences in this dramatization. The motives might be different, however.

luke

-----Original Message-----
From: James Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu>
Sent: Oct 8, 2003 10:26 AM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: While we're talking about language...

I'm reading Byron these days and so far as I can tell he consistently
rhymes "wind" with words like "mind" and "behind" and "remind." I
haven't seen a single exception in _Childe Harold's Pilgrimmage_ or the
Oriental tales, at least.

Anyone have any thoughts about this? Scottie?

Jim

PS Here's a very good article about Byron in AM by Jacques Barzun:

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/53aug/barzun.htm

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Received on Thu Oct 9 01:14:50 2003