A history of English literature

by Edward Albert

IX. 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.

II. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM

Notes.—1. Abbreviations:

• E., “English Men of Letters.”
• S.W., “Studies of Living Writers.”
• W.D., “Writers of the Day.”
• P.B., “The People’s Books.”

2. When the title of a book is not given it is identical with the name of the writer being dealt with. For instance, the title of Courthope’s work on Addison is Joseph Addison.

Addison, Joseph