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HISTORICAL MANUAL OF ENGLISH PROSODY
PREFACE
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CONTENTS
BOOK I INTRODUCTORY AND DOGMATIC
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH PROSODY—THE ACCENTUAL OR STRESS
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CHAPTER III SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH PROSODY—THE SYLLABIC
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CHAPTER IV SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH PROSODY—THE FOOT
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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
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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
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BOOK II HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ENGLISH PROSODY
CHAPTER I FROM THE ORIGINS TO CHAUCER—THE CONSTITUTION OF ENGLISH VERSE[49]
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CHAPTER II FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER—DISORGANISATION AND RECONSTRUCTION
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CHAPTER III FROM SHAKESPEARE TO MILTON—THE CLOSE OF THE FORMATIVE PERIOD
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CHAPTER IV HALT AND RETROSPECT—CONTINUATION ON HEROIC VERSE AND ITS COMPANIONS FROM DRYDEN TO CRABBE
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CHAPTER V THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL—ITS PRECURSORS AND FIRST GREAT STAGE
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CHAPTER VI THE LAST STAGE—TENNYSON TO SWINBURNE
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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
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CHAPTER II FROM BYSSHE TO GUEST
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CHAPTER III LATER NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROSODISTS
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BOOK IV AUXILIARY APPARATUS
CHAPTER I GLOSSARY
TABLE OF FEET
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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.
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CHAPTER IV BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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