Historical Manual of English Prosody
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- HISTORICAL MANUAL OF ENGLISH PROSODY
- PREFACE
- FOOTNOTES:
- CONTENTS
- BOOK I INTRODUCTORY AND DOGMATIC
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH PROSODY—THE ACCENTUAL OR STRESS
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER III SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH PROSODY—THE SYLLABIC
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IV SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH PROSODY—THE FOOT
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER V RULES OF THE FOOT SYSTEM
- § A. Feet
- § B. Constitution of Feet
- § C. Equivalence and Substitution
- § D. Pause
- § E. Line-Combination
- § F. Rhyme
- § G. Miscellaneous
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VI CONTINUOUS ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH SCANSION ACCORDING TO THE FOOT SYSTEM
- I. Old English Period Scansion only dimly visible.
- II. Late Old English with Nisus towards Metre ("Grave" Poem. Guest's text, spelling, and accentuation; the usual marks for the latter being substituted for his dividing bars, and foot division added in dots.)
- III. Transition Period Metre struggling to assert itself in a New Way. Part of the verses of St. Godric.
- IV. Early Middle English Period Attempt at merely Syllabic Uniformity with Unbroken Iambic Run and no Rhyme. Orm.
- V. Early Middle English Period Conflict or Indecision between Accentual Rhythm and Metrical Scheme. Layamon.
- VI. Early Middle English Period The Appearance and Development of the "Fourteener."
- VII. Early Middle English Period The Plain and Equivalenced Octosyllable.
- VIII. Early Middle English Period The Romance-Six or "Rime Couée."
- IX. Early Middle English Period Miscellaneous Stanzas.
- X. Early Middle English Period Appearance of the Decasyllable.
- XI. Later Middle English Period The Alliterative Revival—Pure.
- XII. Later Middle English Period The Alliterative Revival—Mixed.
- XIII. Later Middle English Period Potentially Metrical Lines in Langland (see Book II).
- XIV. Later Middle English Period Scansions from Chaucer.
- XV. Later Middle English Period Variations from Strict Iambic Norm in Gower.
- XVI. Transition Period Examples of Break-down in Literary Verse.
- XVII. Transition Period Examples of True Prosody in Ballad, Carols, etc.
- XVIII. Transition Period Examples of Skeltonic and other Doggerel.
- XIX. Transition Period Examples from the Scottish Poets.
- XX. Early Elizabethan Period Examples of Reformed Metre from Wyatt, Surrey, and other Poets before Spenser.
- XXI. Spenser[37] at Different Periods
- XXII. Examples of the Development of Blank Verse
- XXIII. Examples of Elizabethan Lyric
- XXIV. Early Continuous Anapæsts
- XXV. The Enjambed Heroic Couplet (1580-1660)
- XXVI. The Stopped Heroic Couplet (1580-1660)
- XXVII. Various Forms of Octosyllable-Heptasyllable (late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century)
- XXVIII. "Common," "Long," and "In Memoriam" Measure (Seventeenth Century)
- XXIX. Improved Anapæstic Measures (Dryden, Anon., Prior)
- XXX. "Pindarics" (Seventeenth Century)
- XXXI. The Heroic Couplet from Dryden to Crabbe
- XXXII. Eighteenth-Century Blank Verse
- XXXIII. The Regularised Pindaric Ode
- XXXIV. Lighter Eighteenth-Century Lyric
- XXXV. The Revival of Equivalence (Chatterton and Blake)
- XXXVI. Rhymeless Attempts (Collins to Shelley)
- XXXVII. The Revived Ballad (Percy to Coleridge)
- XXXVIII
- Note on the Application of the "Christabel" System to Nineteenth-Century Lyric generally.
- XXXIX. Nineteenth-Century Couplet (Leigh Hunt to Mr. Swinburne)
- XL. Nineteenth-Century Blank Verse (Wordsworth to Mr. Swinburne)
- XLI. The Non-Equivalenced Octosyllable of Keats and Morris
- XLII. The Continuous Alexandrine (Drayton and Browning)
- XLIII
- XLIV. The Stages of the Metre of "Dolores" and the Dedication of "Poems and Ballads"
- XLV. Long Metres of Tennyson, Browning, Morris, and Swinburne
- XLVI. The Later Sonnet
- XLVII. The Various Attempts at "Hexameters" in English
- XLVIII. Minor Imitations of Classical Metres
- XLIX. Imitations of Artificial French Forms
- L. Later Rhymelessness
- LI. Some "Unusual" Metres and Disputed Scansions
- FOOTNOTES:
- BOOK II HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ENGLISH PROSODY
- CHAPTER I FROM THE ORIGINS TO CHAUCER—THE CONSTITUTION OF ENGLISH VERSE[49]
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER II FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER—DISORGANISATION AND RECONSTRUCTION
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER III FROM SHAKESPEARE TO MILTON—THE CLOSE OF THE FORMATIVE PERIOD
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IV HALT AND RETROSPECT—CONTINUATION ON HEROIC VERSE AND ITS COMPANIONS FROM DRYDEN TO CRABBE
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER V THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL—ITS PRECURSORS AND FIRST GREAT STAGE
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VI THE LAST STAGE—TENNYSON TO SWINBURNE
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VII RECAPITULATION OR SUMMARY VIEW OF STAGES OF ENGLISH PROSODY
- I. Old English Period
- II. Before or very soon after 1200 Earliest Middle English Period.
- III. Middle and Later Thirteenth Century Second Early Middle English Period.
- IV. Earlier Fourteenth Century Central Period of Middle English.
- V. Later Fourteenth Century Crowning Period of Middle English.
- VI. Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries The Decadence of Middle English Prosody.
- VII. Mid-Sixteenth Century The Recovery of Rhythm.
- VIII. Late Sixteenth Century The Perfecting of Metre and of Poetical Diction.
- IX. Early Seventeenth Century The further Development of Lyric, Stanza, and Blank Verse. Insurgence and Division of the Couplet.
- X. Mid-Seventeenth Century Milton.
- XI. The Later Seventeenth Century Dryden.
- XII. The Eighteenth Century
- XIII. The Early Nineteenth Century and the Romantic Revival
- XIV. The Later Nineteenth Century
- BOOK III HISTORICAL SURVEY OF VIEWS ON PROSODY
- CHAPTER I BEFORE 1700
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER II FROM BYSSHE TO GUEST
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER III LATER NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROSODISTS
- FOOTNOTES:
- BOOK IV AUXILIARY APPARATUS
- CHAPTER I GLOSSARY
- TABLE OF FEET
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER II REASONED LIST OF POETS WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO THEIR PROSODIC QUALITY AND INFLUENCE
- CHAPTER III ORIGINS OF LINES AND STANZAS
- A. Lines
- B. Stanzas, etc.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IV BIBLIOGRAPHY
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