dithyramb

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• Edgar Allan Poe, I am fond of believing, earned as a critic a good deal of the excess of praise that he gets as a romancer and a poet, and another over-estimated American dithyrambist, Sidney Lanier, wrote the best textbook of prosody in English; [31] but in general the critical writing done in the United States has been of a low order, and most A Book of Prefaces
• Such is the case with Herrick's ‘Fare-well to Sack,’ a dithyrambic ode.
• Heine’s mental history, but because they are a specimen of his power in that kind of dithyrambic writing which, in less masterly hands, easily becomes ridiculous: The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
• My first act, in music strongly characterized, was Tasso; the second in tender harmony, Ovid; and the third, entitled Anacreon, was to partake of the gayety of the dithyrambus. The Confessions of J J Rousseau
• From time to time he'd been forced to wax dithyrambic even about the pretend engineers.
• We are met almost at the threshold by a colossal epic, Creation, Man and the Messiah (1830); by songs that turn into dithyrambic odes, by descriptive pieces which embrace the universe, by all the froth and roar and turbidity of genius, with none of its purity and calm. Henrik Ibsen
• He is quite right that Wilde is in the play as a foil to Housman, and elevates the "dithyrambic" artist at the expense of the scrupulous scholar. 'The Invention of Love': An Exchange
• After the politicians, I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts. The Apology
• Such an author will at one moment write in a dithyrambic vein, as though he were tipsy; at another, nay, on the very next page, he will be pompous, severe, profoundly learned and prolix, stumbling on in the most cumbrous way and chopping up everything very small; like the late Christian Wolf, only in a modern dress. The Art of Literature
• Lyric poetry included dithyrambs, encomia, paeans, and hymns.