Maybe I should start over and say I'm looking for early occurrences of the
phrase heroic couplet. If Randi Eldevik is right and it doesn't come in
before Pope, that would be interesting.
Though it does not answer your specific question,you will probably have seen
William Bowman Piper's entry
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A question, then. For the last few years, I have been reading and writing
about epic style in the Renaissance. For someone who was trying to imitate
Virgil's epic style in a
My question is this: when did critics and poets start using the term
heroic couplet? The online OED, which lets you search quotations, does
not have an example of this phrase until 1857! As early as 1693, Dryden is
using the phrase heroic verse, but this is still very late, and he
doesn't write as
