Meanings of metrical romances in English

But the metrical romances of these two poets are widely different.

BESIDES the metrical romances, we may date another kind of story from this time.

Like Scott and Byron, Keats wrote metrical romances.

Scott's verse tales are better poetry than the English metrical romances of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

He wrote tragedies, metrical romances, lyrics, and everything that he wrote was read-notonly at home, but on the Continent.

An epic tendency, combined with great facility in depicting scenery and describing events, is the main feature of his metrical romances.

Yet these songs and metrical romances were most inadequate representatives of the undeveloped principles which lay at the root of Christian civilization.

The norm of the verse was the eight-syllabled riming couplet used in most of the English metrical romances of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

They were the work of Englishmen; but were composed in French, and from them the poets of France fashioned a number of metrical romances.

As in the 14th century, metrical romances continued to be translated from the French, homilies and saints' legends and rhyming chronicles were still manufactured.

During the age of metrical romances (1200 to 1500), all the already extant cycles were remodelled and extended.

This child, when he had attained manhood, spent all his time in warring against the Saracens, as all pagans are called in these metrical romances.

That literature abounded with metrical romances, such as are found in every country where there is much curiosity and intelligence, but little reading and writing.

In the same journal (29: 226 f.) I have given synopses of two Tagalog metrical romances which open with the Cinderella setting.

But perhaps before you read his novels you will like to read his Metrical Romances.

Perhaps one of the most interesting of these Metrical Romances is that of Havelok the Dane.