metrical romance
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romance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. novel, love story; exaggeration, fiction, tall story; love affair, gest, fantasy. See description, imagination, falsehood. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Experiences that excite the imagination] Syn. fancy,… … English dictionary for students
Romance de Tebas — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda El Romance de Tebas (en francés Roman de Thèbes, en inglés Romance of Thebes) es un tema literario que ha sido tratado en diversas lenguas. Contenido 1 En francés 2 En inglés … Wikipedia Español
Romance — Ro*mance , n. [OE. romance, romant, romaunt, OF. romanz, romans, romant, roman, F. roman, romance, fr. LL. Romanice in the Roman language, in the vulgar tongue, i. e., in the vulgar language which sprang from Latin, the language of the Romans,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Romance of Thebes — is a literary subject that has been treated in several languages.French Le Roman de Thèbes is a poem of some 10,000 lines which appears to be based, not on the Thebaid of Statius, but on an abridgment of that work. This view is supported by the… … Wikipedia
romance — romance1 romancer, n. n., adj. /roh mans , roh mans/; v. /roh mans /, n., v., romanced, romancing, adj. n. 1. a novel or other prose narrative depicting heroic or marvelous deeds, pageantry, romantic exploits, etc., usually in a historical or… … Universalium
romance stanza — ▪ poetry also called romance six a six line verse stanza common in metrical romances in which the first, second, fourth, and fifth lines have four accents each and the third and sixth lines have three accents each and in which the rhyme… … Universalium
romance stanza — noun : a six line verse stanza common in metrical romances in which lines 1, 2, 4, and 5 of 4 accents each are rhymed and lines 3 and 6 of 3 accents each are rhymed … Useful english dictionary
Guy of Warwick — is a legendary English hero of Romance popular in England and France from the 13th to the 17th century.The core of the legend [The fictive narratives of Guy were taken as history in chronicles of Thomas Rudborne and John Hardyng (Richmond 1996:ch … Wikipedia
Literary or Profane Legends — Literary or Profane Legends † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Literary or Profane Legends In the period of national origins history and legend are inextricably mingled. In the course of oral transmission historic narrative necessarily becomes … Catholic encyclopedia
Bevis of Hampton — (Old French: Beuve(s) or Bueve or Beufves de Hanton(n)e; Anglo Norman: Boeve de Haumtone; Italian: Buovo d Antona) is a legendary English hero and the subject of Anglo Norman, French, English, VenetianHasenohr, 173 4.] and other medieval metrical … Wikipedia
