Lexicographical Neighbors of Sestinas
Literary usage of Sestinas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Of Much Love and Some Knowledge of Books by Henry Eduard Legler, Caxton Club (1912)
"... Some on sestinas sad; But would I choose them?—no, For me the blithe ballade!
Envoy Prince, to these songs a-row The Muse might endless add; ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Dante, a little later, wrote sestinas in Italian, and of these the most famous
is that beginning " Al poco giorno ed al gran ..."
3. Lyric Forms from France: Their History and Their Use by Helen Louise Cohen (1922)
"The Comte de Gramont between 1830 and 1848 wrote a number of sestinas and is ...
Tyard had, however, introduced rhyme into his sestinas, the rhyme order in ..."
4. A History of French Versification by Leon Emile Kastner (1903)
"1521-1603), one of the minor poets of the Pléiade, but he found no support among
the other members of the group, and the two sestinas which he has left in ..."
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