Hexameter Verse and Its Requirements in Order That It May "Read Itself": An Inquiry Tending to Prove an Universal Law Demanded in English and Followed in the Greek and Latin Classics (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Prentiss Cummings

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0267594976 ISBN 13: 9780267594979

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Hexameter Verse and Its Requirements in Order That It May "Read Itself": An Inquiry Tending to Prove an Universal Law Demanded in English and Followed in the Greek and Latin Classics

Nor is it a difficulty with us, as I have seen it Stated, that English is lacking in short, unaccented words.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0267594976
• ISBN 13: 9780267594979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 74