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English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and HistoryAlden, Raymond MacDonald

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English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

Name: English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History
Author: Alden, Raymond MacDonald

Alden, Raymond MacDonald

English language -- Versification; English poetry

CHAUCER: _Balade de bon conseyl_, 360f.*;
        _Balade on Gentilesse_, 362;
        _Balade to Rosemound_, 362;
        _Complaint to his Empty Purse_, 362;
        _Compleynt of Venus_, 362;
        _Compleynte unto Pite_, 93*, 177, 178;
        decasyllabic verse of, 177-179;
        _Fortune_, 362;
        free cesura in verse of, 17;
        French lyrical forms used by, 362;
        _House of Fame_, 165 f.*;
        influence on form of Spenserian stanza, 103;
        _Knights Tale_, 138 f.*;
        _Lak of Stedfastnesse_, 362;
        _Legend of Good Women_, 176* (ballade in, 362);
        _Monk's Tale_, 97*;
        octosyllabic couplet of, 166;
        omission of opening syllable in verse of, 20;
        on alliteration, 120;
        _Parlement of Foules_, 369*;
        perfect rime in, 121 n.;
        _Prologue_, 20*, 176*;
        _Proverb_, 71*;
        "rime royal" introduced by, 94;
        _Sir Thopas_, 84*.

      _Chevy Chase_ (ballad), 70*.

      Choral odes, 323-328.

      Choriambus, 408.

      _Cid, Poema del_, 114*.

      Classical metres, imitations of, 330-357.

      CLOUGH, A. H.: _Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich_, 350*;
        hexameter of, 351;
        his analysis of a line of blank verse, 403.

      COLERIDGE: _Ancient Mariner_, 133*, 263*;
        _Christabel_, 15*, 401*;
        _Fancy in Nubibus_, 296*;
        hexameters of, 346;
        his theory of metre, 420-422;
        _Hymn before Sunrise_, 241*;
        _Hymn to the Earth_, 345 f.*;
        _Kubla Khan_, 138*, 147*;
        _Ode on the Departing Year_, 311*;
        on sonnet of White, 281;
        on sonnets of Bowles, 278;
        sonnets of, 296;
        _To a Friend_, 75*.

      COLLINS: _Ode to Evening_, 246;
        _Ode to Liberty_, 170*, 303 f.*;
        on verse of Skelton, 32;
        _Passions_, 310*.

      "Common metre," 261 f.

      _Confessio Goliae_, 259*.

      CONGREVE: _Discourse on Pindaric Ode_, 302 f.;
        _Pindaric Ode_, 301 f.*.

      Consonants, as lengthening English syllables, 396-399.

      CONSTABLE: _Diana_, 273.

      CORSON, on blank verse of Browning, 247 f.;
        on double rime, 129 f.;
        on _In Memoriam_ stanza, 76 f.;
        on Mrs. Browning's sonnets, 284;
        on _ottava rima_, 98, 99;
        on rime, 122;
        on Spenserian stanza of Keats, 105;
        on variety in verse movement, 61;
        on verse of Cowper, 240;
        on Wordsworth's Immortality Ode, 313 f.

      COTTON, C.: _Rondeau_, 372 f.*;
        Virelai of, 385.

      Couplet (see under Decasyllabic and Octosyllabic).

      COURTHOPE, on Aristotle's view of metre, 415;
        on the sonnet, 268, 272;
        on verse-form in poetry, 429-432;
        on verse of Pope, 201;
        on verse of Surrey, 216.

      COWLEY, Congreve on the odes of, 303;
        introduction of irregular ode by, 308;
        _Resurrection_, 307 f.*;
        _Solitude_, 88*.

      Cowleyan ode, 298, 307-323.

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English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and HistoryAlden, Raymond MacDonald

General

English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

Alden, Raymond MacDonald

English language -- Versification; English poetry

CHAUCER: _Balade de bon conseyl_, 360f.*;
        _Balade on Gentilesse_, 362;
        _Balade to Rosemound_, 362;
        _Complaint to his Empty Purse_, 362;
        _Compleynt of Venus_, 362;
        _Compleynte unto Pite_, 93*, 177, 178;
        decasyllabic verse of, 177-179;
        _Fortune_, 362;
        free cesura in verse of, 17;
        French lyrical forms used by, 362;
        _House of Fame_, 165 f.*;
        influence on form of Spenserian stanza, 103;
        _Knights Tale_, 138 f.*;
        _Lak of Stedfastnesse_, 362;
        _Legend of Good Women_, 176* (ballade in, 362);
        _Monk's Tale_, 97*;
        octosyllabic couplet of, 166;
        omission of opening syllable in verse of, 20;
        on alliteration, 120;
        _Parlement of Foules_, 369*;
        perfect rime in, 121 n.;
        _Prologue_, 20*, 176*;
        _Proverb_, 71*;
        "rime royal" introduced by, 94;
        _Sir Thopas_, 84*.

      _Chevy Chase_ (ballad), 70*.

      Choral odes, 323-328.

      Choriambus, 408.

      _Cid, Poema del_, 114*.

      Classical metres, imitations of, 330-357.

      CLOUGH, A. H.: _Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich_, 350*;
        hexameter of, 351;
        his analysis of a line of blank verse, 403.

      COLERIDGE: _Ancient Mariner_, 133*, 263*;
        _Christabel_, 15*, 401*;
        _Fancy in Nubibus_, 296*;
        hexameters of, 346;
        his theory of metre, 420-422;
        _Hymn before Sunrise_, 241*;
        _Hymn to the Earth_, 345 f.*;
        _Kubla Khan_, 138*, 147*;
        _Ode on the Departing Year_, 311*;
        on sonnet of White, 281;
        on sonnets of Bowles, 278;
        sonnets of, 296;
        _To a Friend_, 75*.

      COLLINS: _Ode to Evening_, 246;
        _Ode to Liberty_, 170*, 303 f.*;
        on verse of Skelton, 32;
        _Passions_, 310*.

      "Common metre," 261 f.

      _Confessio Goliae_, 259*.

      CONGREVE: _Discourse on Pindaric Ode_, 302 f.;
        _Pindaric Ode_, 301 f.*.

      Consonants, as lengthening English syllables, 396-399.

      CONSTABLE: _Diana_, 273.

      CORSON, on blank verse of Browning, 247 f.;
        on double rime, 129 f.;
        on _In Memoriam_ stanza, 76 f.;
        on Mrs. Browning's sonnets, 284;
        on _ottava rima_, 98, 99;
        on rime, 122;
        on Spenserian stanza of Keats, 105;
        on variety in verse movement, 61;
        on verse of Cowper, 240;
        on Wordsworth's Immortality Ode, 313 f.

      COTTON, C.: _Rondeau_, 372 f.*;
        Virelai of, 385.

      Couplet (see under Decasyllabic and Octosyllabic).

      COURTHOPE, on Aristotle's view of metre, 415;
        on the sonnet, 268, 272;
        on verse-form in poetry, 429-432;
        on verse of Pope, 201;
        on verse of Surrey, 216.

      COWLEY, Congreve on the odes of, 303;
        introduction of irregular ode by, 308;
        _Resurrection_, 307 f.*;
        _Solitude_, 88*.

      Cowleyan ode, 298, 307-323.

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