Newest finnish-language Questions - Literature Stack Exchange What is a "proem", and why was this word used in the translation of the Kalevala? The contents of Crawford's translation of the Kalevala begin, after the frontmatter that's not part of the original text, with something called a "Proem"
What is meant by traffic in this list of mens activities? -- The Decameron, proem (Rigg translation) I already learned a new English word dumpish from this passage, but what does traffic mean as a verb in this context? Surely it doesn't refer to illegal trade, but perhaps there is another older meaning of this word in English?
Newest decameron Questions - Literature Stack Exchange In the introduction (proem) to the Decameron, the author spends some paragraphs writing about lovesick women and how he hopes his stories may give them some solace as their situation means they're
Looking for an essay comparing Beethoven to Hamlet When the chaos blast of the Ninth's proem (a double-exposure of tonic and flattened submediant) recurs in The sleeping beauty 's pas de six, it figures as a mordant harmonic spice rather than a screech By the same token, while Mahler and Scriabin break into symphonic song without a by-your-leave, Beethoven had carefully and ceremoniously to prepare the ground for a reunion of voice and