Sentences with canto
can·to
C c - This scene comes from the final canto of the 6,000-line poem, but although it is clearly the epic's climactic moment, its intra-familial violence cannot be allowed to remain its final statement.
- This singular indebtedness is registered canto after canto, as both pilgrim and poet quite literally follow in Virgil's beloved footsteps.
- The Messiah had been conceived as a prose epic, on the model of Fenelon's Telemaque, and the earliest cantos were drafted in lyrical prose.
- I used the form of multiple cantos because I wanted a fragmented structure that suggests the difficulties in capturing the complexity of Angola.
- The rich allegorical description of the island throughout the first five cantos of the poem offers, in itself, a harsh invective against prevailing Stuart policy.
- One intention of this article is to analyse the Russian cantos in Don Juan and to test the validity of Gilenson's claim about the extent to which Byron was aware of Russian history.
- The book is divided into six cantos, describing the plan of the city, the monuments and the technological marvels of those days.
- He describes his play as an oratorio in 11 cantos, in reference to Dante's Divine Comedy and its depiction of hell.
- Of her thousands of unpublished writings, including a novel and cantos commemorating John Brown, some fifty remain.
- The commission, all 100 cantos of the poem illustrated on sheepskin parchment for what was probably intended as a kind of luxury book, was never completed.
- The poem itself, in 10 cantos, is a series of images of migration of the warrior hero along the Mongolian trade routes on horseback.
- And still we have not touched on Byron's greatest works, the four cantos of ‘Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,’ and the unending epic impromptu, Don Juan.
- Executed on large sheets of sheepskin parchment, each extraordinarily delicate ink line drawing illustrates one canto or section of Dante's poem.
- The Commedia's last allusion to Virgil occurs as late as the final canto, when the poet marks the dissolution of his own powers in the face of God's reality.
- The poem was written over several years from 1818, and in fact the last canto is incomplete.