Again, after the completion but before the publication of Cantos III.
THE details of the siege of Ismail in two of the following cantos (i.
October-November, 1820, but the publication of Cantos III.
Tis Perhaps a little strange, if not quite new, That from the first of Cantos up to this I've not begun what we have to go through.
De Quincy's Confessions of an English Opium Eater appeared in the London Magazine, October, November, 1821, after Cantos III.
The five stories, taken together, complete the long epic of the American Indian to which Longfellow was later to supply the earlier cantos in "Hiawatha.
Canto I; or, The Town Meeting (includes what is now Cantos I and II).
LOU POUÈMO DÓU ROSE The Poem of the Rhone, the third of the poems in twelve cantos that Mistral has written, appeared in 1897.
What is to be praised above all in these two exquisite cantos is the pervading naturalness.
Despite the liberties just described, the organization of the work follows Pumpurs's original division into six cantos of widely differing lengths.
At the time of his death, he had written sixteen cantos of an epic poem called "La Fata Vergine", which a Venetian critic has extravagantly praised, and which I have not seen.
Following these cantoswill be found the witchcraft lore, lyrics, and miscellany.
Here he composed Marino Faliero, The Two Foscari, Sardanapalus, Cain, The Prophecy of Dante and the third and fourth cantos of Don Juan.
He had published during his six years in London, the first two cantos of Childe Harold, The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos, The Siege of Corinth, Lara and The Corsair.
Ten years after his death, a bookseller, reprinting the six books of the Faery Queen, added two cantos and a fragment, On Mutability, supposed to be part of the Legend of Constancy.
Each perfect book consists of twelvecantos of from thirty-five to sixty of his nine-line stanzas.
The one law to which the poet feels bound is to have twelve cantos in each book; and to do this he is sometimes driven to what in later times has been called padding.
The posthumous cantos are entitled, Of Mutability, and are said to be apparently parcel of a legend of Constancy.
But it is probable that a portion of them was written, which, except the cantos On Mutability, has perished.
It would be difficult to describe the enthusiasm this work excited when the first three cantos appeared in 1746.
The first cantos of this poem had been published long before his marriage, and it was continued after his union with Meta, and at her side.
The other mention occurs in the former of the two cantos Of Mutability.
Perhaps some fragments of them may have perished in the flames at Kilcolman--certainly only two cantos have reached us.
Publication of third edition of the Faerie Queene, incorporating Books I-VI and Two Cantos of Mutabilitie.
Less happy was his attempt to rival Tasso with an epic poem in fifteen cantos on the Crusades.
Two cantos of Statius yesterday morning, two more again this morning; to-morrow, two cantos of Statius, that involves a fourth!
Yet whoever reads and re-reads The Dynasty of Raghu, and the other works of its author, finds the conviction growing ever stronger that our poem in nineteen cantos is mutilated.
A similar tradition concerning Kalidasa's second epic has justified itself; for some time only seven cantos were known; then more were discovered, and we now have seventeen.
Now if the concludingcantos were unfitted for use as a text-book, they might very easily be lost during the centuries before the introduction of printing-presses into India.
To Aja are devoted the remainder of this fifth canto and the following three cantos; and these Aja-cantos are among the loveliest in the epic.
It is of course possible that Kalidasa wrote the first nineteen cantos when a young man, intending to add more, then turned to other matters, and never afterwards cared to take up the rather thankless task of ending a youthful work.
As the poet is treading ground familiar to all who hear him, the action of these cantos is very compressed.
It has been somewhat more formidably argued that the concluding cantos are spurious, that Kalidasa wrote only the first seven or perhaps the first eight cantos.
Hardly more than this, that the first eight cantos are better poetry than the last nine.
In these cantos Kalidasa attempts to present anew, with all the literary devices of a more sophisticated age, the famous old epic story sung in masterly fashion by the author of the Ramayana.
Cantos ten to fifteen form the kernel of the epic, for they tell the story of Rama, the mighty hero of Raghu's line.
Nor is there evidence to show that any considerable poem has been lost, unless it be true that the concluding cantos of one of the epics have perished.
He never cared, perhaps, that Dante, writing the concluding cantos of his poem, decided sadly not to send them to his former benefactor.
The later cantosof the great poem, the Divine Comedy, were sent to this ruler as they were written.
The poetic results of this trip were the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, with their famous descriptions of romantic scenery.
In his early poems he betrayed no passionate love of nature, though we do not doubt that he felt it; and even in the first two cantos of "Childe Harold" he was an unfrequent and no very devout worshipper at her shrine.
Had they been suffered to stand alone, long ere now had they been pretty well forgotten; and had they been followed by other two cantos no better than themselves, then had the whole four in good time been most certainly damned.
It is sometimes said by those anxious to learn the story that these introductory Epistles should be steadily ignored, and the cantos read in strict succession.
It is said that when Dante was living at Ravenna he would spend whole days alone among the forest glades, thinking of Florence and her civil wars, and meditating cantos of his poem.
He regales us with his equivocal stories, with the miracles of the convulsionnaires which he has seen with his own eyes, and with somecantos of a poem on a subject that he knows thoroughly.
Voltaire's brilliant success brought poetry into fashion, and so Helvétius wrote half a dozen long cantos on Happiness.
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