VIII. CHIEF METRICAL FORMS: PART III. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISMIX. CHIEF METRICAL FORMS: PART II
| Date | Spenserian Stanza | Ottava Rima | Rhyme Royal | Sonnet |
| | | Chaucer (d. 1400) | |
| | | James I of Scotland | |
| 1500 | | | Henryson | |
| | | Sackville | Wyat[246] |
| | | Spenser | Surrey[245] |
| 1600 | | | | Spenser[245] |
| | Britannia’s Pastorals | | Shakespeare[245] |
| | | | Drayton[246] |
| | | | Milton[246] |
| 1700 | | | | |
| Thomson | | | |
| Shenstone | | | |
| 1800 | | | | Wordsworth[246] |
| Keats | Byron | | Byron[246] |
| Shelley | Keats | | Keats[246] |
| Byron | | | Shelley[246] |
| Tennyson | | | Tennyson[246] |
| | | W. Morris | |
| 1900 | | | | D. G. Rossetti[246] |
APPENDIX II
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. GENERAL WORKS
- The Cambridge History of English Literature.
- A Short History of English Literature, G. Saintsbury.
- Cyclopædia of English Literature.
- A History of English Poetry, W. J. Courthope.
- A History of English Prosody, G. Saintsbury.
- History of English Dramatic Literature, Sir A. W. Ward.
- Chronicle of the English Drama, F. G. Fleay.
- The English Novel, Sir W. Raleigh.
- The English Novel, G. Saintsbury.
- English and Scottish Popular Ballads, F. J. Child.
- Scottish Vernacular Literature, A. Henderson.
- Early English Literature, Stopford A. Brooke.
- Early English Literature, B. ten Brink.
- English Literature from the Norman Conquest to Chaucer, W. H. Schofield.
- The Transition Period, G. Gregory Smith.
- Elizabethan Literature, G. Saintsbury.
- History of Eighteenth-Century Literature, E. Gosse.
- The Age of Dryden, R. Garnett.
- The Augustan Age, O. Elton.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature, G. Saintsbury.
- A Survey of English Literature, 1830–1880, O. Elton.
- English Prose (extracts), H. Craik.
- English Poets (extracts), T. H. Ward.
- The Encyclopædia Britannica.
- Dictionary of National Biography.