Alcaeus : (c.620-580 BC) Greek lyric poet, contemporary of Sappho.
... polishing them up to perfection, just as Shakespeare stole all his plots from whoever he could find any worth stealing. But all the same, if that applies to Shakespeare, Homer, Virgil, what about Alcaeus, Sappho, Catullus, Horace? They did a good deal of inventing or of transferring—introducing Greek metres into Latin, for example. I can't spot a precedent in modern European literature but there must ...
... is divided by a caesura, and the variations of the caesura are essential to the harmony of the verse. An example of Alcaics from the Jivanmukta (Alcaics is a Greek metre invented by the poet Alcaeus): In the Latin it is: But in English, variations (modulations) are allowed, only one has to keep to the general plan. Swinburne's Sapphics are to be scanned thus: Two ...
... polishing them up to perfection, just as Shakespeare stole all his plots from wherever he could find any worth stealing. But all the same, if that applies to Shakespeare, Homer, Virgil, what about Alcaeus, Sappho, Catallus, Horace? they did a good deal of inventing or of transferring—introducing Greek metres into Latin, for example. I can't spot a precedent in modern European literature, but there must ...
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