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Definition of Fourteeners
1. fourteener [n] - See also: fourteener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fourteeners
Literary usage of Fourteeners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"The doggerel and the fourteeners, except when the latter are used (as they
sometimes are) to extend and diversify the blank verse itself, ..."
2. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... on the importance of " keeping the measure," and not (for instance) slipping
from poulter's measure — Alexandrines and fourteeners — to fourteeners by ..."
3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"... fourteeners, and other long shambling lines, and by a still lively tendency
towards alliteration itself, both in metred verse and in prose. ..."
4. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"Into the doggerel and the fourteeners, especially in Love's Labour's Lost, as
well as into the short stanza-verse of A Midsummer Night's Dream, ..."
5. Robert Greene by John Clark Jordan (1915)
"88 The absence from Greene's poetry of fourteeners, with this one exception, and
of the poulter's measure altogether, is interesting as showing to what ..."
6. The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631) by Thomas Seccombe, John William Allen (1903)
"The first instalment of his translation of the Iliad (in fourteeners) appeared
in 1598; other instalments followed in the same year and in 1609; ..."
7. Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference by Walter Wilson Greg (1906)
"... eclogues into English fourteeners. The verse is fairly creditable, but the
exaggeration of style, endeavouring by sheer brutality of phrase to force the ..."
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