Historical Manual of English Prosody
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
A HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSODY FROM THE TWELFTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY. 3 vols. 8vo.
Vol. I. From the Origins to Spenser. 12s. 6d. net. Vol. II. From Shakespeare to Crabbe. 18s. net. Vol. III. From Blake to Swinburne. 18s. net.
A HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE RHYTHM. 8vo. 18s. net.
A HISTORY OF ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE. Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d.
A HISTORY OF NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE. Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d.
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. Crown 8vo. 10s. Also in Five Parts. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. each.
LIFE OF DRYDEN. Library Edition. Crown 8vo. 3s. net. Pocket Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 2s. net.
George Saintsbury
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§ A. Feet
§ B. Constitution of Feet
§ C. Equivalence and Substitution
§ D. Pause
§ E. Line-Combination
§ F. Rhyme
§ G. Miscellaneous
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XXII. Examples of the Development of Blank Verse
XXIV. Early Continuous Anapæsts
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)
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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
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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I. Old English Period
XII. The Eighteenth Century
XIII. The Early Nineteenth Century and the Romantic Revival
XIV. The Later Nineteenth Century
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TABLE OF FEET
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A. Lines
B. Stanzas, etc.
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