... language he used in clothing his poetry was a popular dialect; one among various other popular dialects – this he turned into the language of Italy Page 175 as a whole, the Italian language as it stood before the eyes of the world. A music and rhythm of a great and lofty consciousness infused itself into the elements that had lain neglected in the dust. The voice confined within ...
... D'Annunzio. His work is per-haps the most wealth-burdened so far as the use of words is concerned. But he has not enough wealth of substance to go with the verbal luxuriance and incandescence. The Italian language lends itself easily to musical polysyllabism, the poet has almost his poetry half made for him in the sound and texture of the language. Restraint, the shaping stroke, the selective capacity are ...
... their contact with German speaking peoples (like the Visigoths in Spain and the Lombards in Italy). Whereas French has been able to preserve much of the fixed tradition of its parent Latin, in the Italian language, stress or accent determines almost entirely the movement of its rhythm. I will illustrate by and by. Bengali verse too has a considerable element of stress which has brought out a peculiar ...
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