| + − | Acad. 72: 13. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w. |
“Workmanlike little book.”
| + | Nation. 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 240w. |
Omond, Thomas Stewart. English metrists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; being a sketch of English prosodical criticism during the last two hundred years. *$2.40. Oxford.
7–37517.
A book for students which not merely enumerates and summarizes but traces “the gradual development of sound views of verse-structure.” Mr. Omond divides the two hundred years of his survey into four equal periods, to each of which he devotes a chapter, as follows: The old orthodoxy, Resistance and rebellion, The new verse, and The new prosody.
“In recommending the present pamphlet to our readers, we do not intend to indorse Mr. Omond’s conclusions, nor to subscribe to his criticism. We have not yet examined the pamphlet with all the care and thought which it deserves, and there are points on which we distinctly disagree with Mr. Omond.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 945. S. 28, ’07. 650w. |
“The finest part of Mr. Omond’s book consists in the exposition of his own ideas.”