Sentence examples for long didactic from inspiring English sources

Another work is Allegoriai on the Iliad and the Odyssey, two long didactic poems containing interpretations of Homeric theology.

His most famous work is the Gharībnāmeh, a long didactic, mystical poem written in over 11,000 mas̄navī (rhymed couplets) and divided into 10 chapters, each with 10 subsections.

Like Chartier they favoured a didactic, elegant, and Latinate style in prose and verse, and they brought the long didactic poem of Deschamps and Christine de Pisan to new prominence.

The characters themselves do not give much help as to where readers should pay attention, as they are too often engaged in long, didactic conversations about Eastern parables and "storyless stories" and the seeming impossibility of creating a truly original narrative from a finite number of building blocks.

Among Ciceronian poets are Catullus, the first master of the Latin love lyric, and Lucretius, who contemplated the origins of the universe and the scientific and philosophical laws that govern it in the long didactic poem De rerum natura ("On the Nature of Things").

July 3, 1683 Upham, England April 5, 1765 Welwyn Garden City, England Edward Young, (baptized July 3 , 1683 Upham, Hampshire, Eng. died April 5, 1765, Welwyn, Hertfordshire) English poet, dramatist, and literary critic, author of The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts (1742 45), a long, didactic poem on death.

For the past two years I have divided my criticism between work for the Guardian – writing overnight reviews that are, hopefully, full of passion and a sense of urgency – and writing for the literary journal Kill Your Darlings, reviews that are long-form, didactic, and often published long after theatrical seasons are closed.

In a long and didactic address, he said bluntly that Bolivia's main problem was that the relationship between state and society had broken down.Indeed so.

Castro worked at all hours of day and night (mostly night), made long and didactic speeches, and was rarely out of his 4x4, ceaselessly travelling from one end of the country to another.

In "Notes for Blues," the introduction to the script of his long and didactic spectacle, Baldwin writes that "Blues for Mister Charlie" was inspired by the murder of the black teen-ager Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.

His defenders insist that, whatever harm he did to himself and his reputation by his prejudices, the often long, always didactic, and specifically Catholic books to which he devoted himself after his conversion more than make up for it, since they are both profound and genuinely universal, insisting on a pan-national commonality in the true faith.