Historical Manual of English Prosody

by George Saintsbury

["Gloss." indicates that the word will be found explained at its alphabetical place in the Glossary.]

• Abbott, Dr., [259], [337]
• Abnormal lines in Shakespeare, [130]
• Accent and accentual system, Bk. I. Ch. II. and passim (Gloss.)
• Acephalous, [51], [157] (Gloss.)
• Acrostic (Gloss.)
• Adjective, forms in -y, [166] note
• Adonais, [204]
• Agincourt, Ballad of, [303]
• Alastor, [204], [312]
• Alberic of Besançon, [330] note
• Alcaics, [124] (Gloss.)
• Alcman, [318]
• Alden, Mr. R. M., [337]
• Alexandrine, [15], [49], [51], [53], [55], [61], [65-71], [79], [84], [85], [90], [91], [102], [109], [129], [130], [159], [171], [177], [192], [193], [205], [212], [227], [290] (Gloss. and Origin-List)
• Alexis, St., [331]
• Alison, [45]
• Allen, Mr. Grant, [125], [281]
• Alliteration, [34]
• Alliterative verse, [37-40], [48-50], [134-139], [151-153], [155] (Gloss.), [316], [317]
• Alresford Pool, [187]
• Ambrose, St., [38], [318]
• Amoryus and Cleopes, [53]
• Amphibrach (Gloss.)
• Amphimacer (Gloss.)
• Anacreon, [318]
• Anacrusis (Gloss.)
• Anapæst, [31] and passim (Gloss.)
• Ancient Mariner, The, [272], [301], [329], [336] note
• Andromeda, [123], [257], [306]
• Anglo-Saxon (or Old English) prosody, [37], [38], [134-137]
• Anima Anceps, [219] note
• Annus Mirabilis, [209]
• Anti-bacchic (Gloss.)
• Anti-Jacobin, The, [300]
• Antispast (Gloss.)
• Antistrophe, [90] (Gloss.)
• "Appoggiatura" (Gloss.)
• Arcades, [185], [308]
• Aristophanes, [304], [318] note, [328]
• Arnold, M. (1822-1888), [102], [127], [212], [213], [286], [298]
• Arsis (Gloss.)
• "Arte Mayor," [326]
• Artificial French forms, [125-127]
• Ascham, R. (1515-1568), [120], [121], [234]
• Asolando, [285] note
• Assonance, [34] (Gloss.)
• Astræa, [266]
• "At a Month's End," [217]
• Atonic (Gloss.)
• Atys, The, [125], [281]
• Awntyrs of Arthur, The, [49]
• Ayton, Sir R. (1570-1638), [81]

• Bacchic (Gloss.)
• Ballad (1647) (Gloss.)
• Ballad-measure, [53], [56], [81], [96], [97] (Gloss. and Origin-List)
• Ballade, [126] (Gloss.)
• Bar (Gloss.)
• Barbour, John (1316-1395), [55]
• Bard, The, scanned, [89-91]
• Barham, R. H. (1788-1844), [298], [308]
• Bartsch, [330]
• "Baston," [233]
• Battle of Alcazar, The, [64]
• "Battle of the Baltic, The," [300]
• Beat (Gloss.)
• Beaumont (1584-1616) and Fletcher (1579-1625), [68], [175], [176]
• Beaumont, Sir John (1583-1627), [78], [187], [188], [239], [298], [311]
• Beddoes, T. L. (1803-1849), [206], [336]
• Behn, Afra (1640-1689), [189]
• Bele Aeliz, [335]
• Bells and Pomegranates, [211]
• Beowulf, [37]
• Beppo, [203], [300]
• Bernard of Morlaix, [329]
• Beryn, [165]
• Bestiary, The, [112], [143], [320], [323]
• Blackwood's Magazine, [21]
• Blake, W. (1757-1827), [33], [42], [93], [94], [112], [143], [145], [199], [298]
• Blank verse, [63-72], [88], [89], [104-108], [174] sq. (Gloss.)
• Blind Harry (fifteenth century), [56], [163]
• "Boadicea" (Cowper's), [10], [302]
• "Boadicea" (Tennyson's), [125], [281]
• Bob and Wheel (Gloss.)
• Boethius (the Provençal), [321], [331]
• Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, The, [122]
• Bowles, W. L. (1762-1850), [200], [299]
• Bradshaw, Mr., [159]
• Brewer, R. F., [259], [337]
• Bridges, Mr., [12] note, [260], [261] note, [337]
• Brightland, J., [245]
• "Broken and cuttit" verse, [169], [173], [202], [237]
• Bronte, Emily (1818-1848), [129]
• Browne, W. (1591-1643), [75], [80], [187], [299]
• Browning, E. B. (1806-1861), [29], [212], [271], [299]
• Browning, R. (1812-1889), [100], [102], [105], [109], [117], [210-212], [285] note, [299], [324], [336]
• Brunne, Robert of (fl. 1288-1338), [233]
• Burden (Gloss.)
• Burns, R. (1759-1796), and Burns-metre, [44-46], [199], [273], [299] (Gloss. and Origin-List)
• Byron, Lord (1788-1824), [114], [203], [268], [300], [311], [334]
• Bysshe, E. (fl. 1702-1712), [16], [19], [27], [195], [242-245], [337]

• Cadence, [233] (Gloss.)
• Cæsura (Gloss.)
• Calverley, C. S. (1831-1884), [338]
• Campbell, T. (1777-1844), [300]
• Campion, Thomas (d. 1619), [33], [73], [121], [238], [300], [338]
• Canning, G. (1770-1827), [123], [124], [292], [300]
• Canterbury Tales, The, [51]
• "Canute Song, The," [136]
• Carey, John (1756-1826), [252]
• Carol, [164] (Gloss.)
• Caroline verse, [189]
• "Castaway, The," [302]
• Castle of Indolence, The, [315]
• Catalexis (Gloss.)
• Catullus, [125], [281], [283]
• Cayley, C. B., [338]
• Chalkhill, J. (fl. c. 1600?), [76], [187]
• Chamberlain, R. (fl. 1640-1660), [301]
• Chamberlayne, W. (1619-1689), [76], [187], [301]
• Chansons de geste, [266], [312], [323]
• Chant-royal (Gloss.)
• Chapman, G. (1559?-1634), [281], [325]
• Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770), [42], [93], [143], [145], [199], [301]
• Chaucer, G. (1340?-1400), [14], [42], [43], [47], [50], [51], [148], [155-163], [172], [186], [190], [191], [222], [233], [266], [267], [273], [278], [289], [291], [295], [296], [301], [307], [321-325], [332], [334]
• Chauceriana, [162]
• Cherry and the Slae, The, [57]
• Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of (1694-1773), [114]
• Chevy Chase, [53], [104]
• Childe Harold, [203], [300]
• Choriamb, [119] (Gloss.)
• Christabel, [8], [42], [60], [95-100], [112], [170], [201], [251], [252], [301], [308], [312]
• Christmas Eve and Easter Day, [211]
• Churchill, Ch. (1731-1764), [194]
• Cleanness, [48]
• Cleveland, J. (1613-1658), [129] note, [301]
• Cloud, Shelley's, scanned, [100], [112], [204]
• Clough, A. H. (1819-1861), [122]
• Coda (Gloss.)
• Coleridge, S. T. (1772-1834), [8], [42], [95-100], [112], [121], [124], [143], [145], [166] note, [201], [208], [251], [252], [272], [299], [301], [312], [329], [336] note, [338]
• Collins, W. (1721-1759), [33], [94-100], [194], [196-199], [273], [301]
• "Come unto these yellow sands," [182] note
• "Common," [7] and passim (Gloss.)
• Common measure, [81] sq. (Gloss.)
• Complaints, Chaucer's, [332], [333]
• Comus, [177], [308]
• Confessio Amantis, [51]
• Congreve, W. (1670-1729), [302]
• Conway, G., [259], [338]
• Couplet (Gloss.)
• "Cowee," [233]
• Cowley, A. (1618-1667), [78], [302], [324]
• Cowper, W. (1731-1800), [89], [94], [113], [125], [194], [196], [197], [292], [304]
• Crabbe, G. (1754-1832), [87], [88], [194]
• Cretic (Gloss.)
• Crowe, W. (1745-1829), [27], [246], [252], [290], [338]
• Crown of Laurel, [54]
• Cupid and Psyche, [187] note
• "Cuttit and broken" verse, [169], [173], [202], [237]
• Cynara, [129]

• Dactyl, [31], [33], and passim (Gloss.)
• Dallas, E.S. (1828-1879), [257]
• Damasus, Pope, [319]
• Daniel, S. (1562-1619), [185], [238], [338]
• Dante, [167] note, [284], [292], [295], [321], [322]
• Darley, G. (1795-1840), [206], [336]
• Darwin, E. (1731-1802), [200]
• Davenant, Sir John (1606-1668), [70], [176]
• David, A., [292]
• Davidson, Mr. John (1857-1909), [219]
• Davies, Sir John (1569-1626), [266]
• Decasyllable, [46] sq. and passim (Gloss. and Origin-List)
• De Contemptu Mundi, [329]
• Defence of Guenevere, The, [215], [309]
• Dennis, John (1657-1734), [241]
• Deschamps, Eust., [334]
• "Deserter," Curran's, [219] note
• Di-iamb (Gloss.)
• Dimeter (Gloss.)
• Dispondee (Gloss.)
• Distich (Gloss.)
• Ditrochee (Gloss.)
• Dixon, R. W. (1853-1900), [218], [219], [295], [303]
• Dobson, Mr. Austin, [125-127]
• Dochmiac (Gloss.)
• Doggerel, [54], [55], [163] (Gloss. and Origin-List)
• "Dolores" metre, [112-115]
• Don Juan, [203], [300]
• Donne, John (1573-1631), [73], [81], [302], [305]
• Douglas, G., [163]
• Dowson, E., [129]
• Drant, T. (d. 1578?), [236]
• Drayton, M. (1563-1631), [75], [77], [109], [185], [187], [225], [283], [302], [303], [324]
• "Dream of Fair Women, The," [209]
• Dryden, John (1631-1700), [15], [17] note, [29], [34] note, [82-85], [101-103], [129] note, [192], [193], [240], [241], [267], [274], [281], [290], [302], [303], [305], [310], [324], [332], [338]
• Dunbar, W. (1465?-1530?), [56], [163], [303]
• Duple (Gloss.)
• Durfey, T. (1653-1723), [197], [199]
• Dyer, John (1700?-1758), [195] note, [303]
• Dying Swan (Tennyson's) scanned, [110-112]

• Earthly Paradise, The, [215], [309]
• "E.I.O.," [54], [164]
• Elegiacs, English, [73], [122]
• Elegy, Gray's, [209]
• Elinor Rumming, [54]
• Elision (Gloss.)
• Ellis, A. J. (1814-1890), [259]
• End-stopped (Gloss.)
• Endymion, [205], [306]
• England's Jubile, [301]
• Enjambment (Gloss.)
• "Enterlace," [233]
• Envoi (Gloss.)
• Epanaphora (Gloss.)
• Epanorthosis (Gloss.)
• Epithalamion (Spenser's), [62]
• Epitrite (Gloss.)
• Epode (Gloss.)
• Equivalence, [32] and passim (Gloss.)
• Eulalia, Hymn of St., [151] note, [321], [331]
• Evangeline, [116], [122], [256], [306], [307]
• Evans, Archdeacon (1789-1866), [257]
• Eve of St. Agnes, The, [205], [306]
• "Eve of St. John," [270]
• Eve of St. Mark, The, [206], [306]
• "Eveleen's Bower," [202], [270]
• "Evening, Ode to" (Collins'), [302]
• "Evening on the Broads," [119]
• Example of Virtue, The, [305]
• Extrametrical syllables, [18] note
• Eye-rhyme, [172] (Gloss.)

• Faerie Queene, The, [171], [280]
• Fairfax, E. (d. 1635), [77], [185], [187], [303], [311], [334]
• "Feet" ("foot"), [6] and passim (Gloss.)
• Feminine endings (Gloss.)
• Fifine at the Fair, [212], [267], [303]
• "Fifteener," [39], [40] (Gloss.)
• "Fingering," [35] (Gloss.)
• Fitzgerald, E. (1809-1883). [217], [303], [332]
• Fletcher, Giles (1588?-1623), [304]
• Fletcher, John, see Beaumont and F., [304]
• Fletcher, Phineas (1582-1650), [304]
• Foot, see Feet
• "Fourteener," [34], [40], [41], [49], [53], [55], [84], [85], [115], [140], [149], [153], [165], [167], [193], [215] (Gloss. and Origin-List)
• French prosody, its connections, agreements, and differences with English, [14]
• Frere, J. H. (1769-1846), [304], [334]
• Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, [64]
• Friars of Berwick, The, [186], [303]

• Galliambics, [125] (Gloss.)
• Gamelyn, [165], [281], [325], [326]
• Garth, S. (1661-1719), [85], [193]
• Gascoigne, G. (1525?-1577), [9], [15], [19], [59], [65], [155], [166], [168], [174], [199], [234], [235], [241], [290], [304], [314], [338]
• Gawain and the Green Knight, [48], [152], [221]
• Gay, J. (1685-1732), [92], [114], [310]
• Gemell or Geminel, [302] (Gloss.)
• Genesis and Exodus, [14], [43], [47], [60], [145], [170], [221], [321]
• Gifford, H. (fl. 1580), [74]
• Gildon, C. (1665-1724), [245]
• Glover, R. (1712-1785), [88], [304]
• Goblin Market, [215], note
• Godric, St. (12th cent.), [38], [136], [304]
• Goldsmith, O. (1728-1774), [96], [194], [338]
• Gorboduc, [63], [174]
• Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions, [72]
• Gospel of Nicodemus, [328]
• Gower, John (1325?-1408), [14], [42], [51], [153], [154], [156], [206], [222], [233], [274], [304]
• "Grandmamma" (Locker's), [300]
• "Grave Poem," the, [38], [136]
• Gray, T. (1718-1771), [89-92], [142], [194], [196-199], [249], [250], [294], [301], [302], [332]
• Greek prosody, its resemblance and relations to English, [1], [6], [7], [20], [32] note, [281]
• Greene, Robert (1560?-1592), [64]
• Grongar Hill, [195] note, [303]
• Guest, Dr. (1800-1880), [11] note, [38], [135], [237], [253-255], [292], [323], [324], [325], [329], [338]

• "Haidee, Lines to," [114]
• Hamlet, [130]
• Hampole, Richard Rolle of, (1290?-1349), [46], [47], [304], [305], [321]
• Hardie, Prof., [284] note, [318] note
• Harvey, Gabriel (1545?-1630), [121], [236]
• Havelok, [149]
• Hawes, S. (d. 1523?), [163], [223], [305]
• Hayley, W. (1745-1820), [300]
• Head-rhyme (Gloss.)
• Hendecasyllables, [124], [125] (Gloss.)
• Henley, Mr. W. E. (1849-1903), [128], [219], [286]
• Henryson, R. (1430?-1506?), [56], [155], [163]
• Heptameter (Gloss.)
• Herbert of Cherbury, Lord (1583-1648), [82], [333]
• Hero and Leander, [186]
• "Heroic" couplet, etc. (Gloss.)
• Herrick, R. (1591-1674), [81], [305]
• "Hesperia," [118]
• Hewlett, Mr., [12] note
• Hexameters, [120-123] (Gloss.)
• Heywood, John (1497?-1580?), [54], [326], [327] note
• Hiatus (Gloss.)
• Hiawatha, [307]
• Hilary, [318]
• Hodgson, Mr. S., [260], [338]
• "Hollyhock" song (Tennyson's), [27], [99], [112]
• Holmes, O. W., [300]
• Hood, Tom, the elder (1799-1845), [269] note
• Hood, Tom, the younger (1835-1874), [259], [338]
• Horace, [266], [289], [318]
• Horn (King), [149], [221], [320], [323], [328]
• House of Fame, The, [50]
• Hughes, Thomas (fl. [158]7), [64]
• Hunt, H. J. Leigh (1784-1859), [101], [305], [306]
• Hyperion, [205], [306]

• Iambic, [19], [31], and passim (Gloss.)
• "Immortality" Ode (Wordsworth's), [200] note
• Ingoldsby Legends, The, [298]
• In Memoriam metre, [81] sq., [312] (Origin-List)
• Inverted stress (Gloss.)
• Ionic (Gloss.)
• Isabella, [204], [205], [306]