“He suddenly bursts into a dithyramb on what it is to be such a thing as a Canadian poet.”

“Epic, and tragic poetry, and also comedy and dithyramb and most flute and harp-music, are all by and large imitations.”

“His Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685, is subtitled ditirambo, the Greek dithyramb being a choral lyric in praise of Dionysus.”

“Lyric poetry included dithyrambs, encomia, paeans, and hymns.”

“Casaubon that evening, or on his dithyrambs about Dorothea's charm, in all which Will joined, but with a difference.”

“Not the kinds of dithyrambs we find in his Cahiers articles, where critics held forth mainly about films they loved.”