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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

DRYDEN: _Absalom and Achitophel_, 56f.*, 193f.*;
        _Alexander's Feast_, 310;
        _All for Love_, 196, 234*;
        _Annus Mirabilis_, 72*;
        blank verse of, 234f.;
        _Conquest of Granada_, 196;
        _Evening's Love_, 40*;
        heroic couplet of, 194f.;
        his introduction of rimed dramatic verse, 196-199;
        _Indian Queen_, 196;
        _Marriage à la Mode_, 195f.*, 234*;
        _Ode for St. Cecilia's Day_, imitated by Young, 88;
        _Ode on Mistress Killigrew_, 309f.*;
        odes of, 310;
        on heroic stanza, 72;
        on verse of Denham and Waller, 188;
        on verse of Donne, 183;
        _Song for St. Cecilia's Day_, 52f.*, 142*.

      DU BARTAS: _La Première Semaine_, 18*.

      DUNBAR: _Lament for the Makaris_, 78*;
        rime royal of, 94;
        _Tua Mariit Wemen_, 119f.*.


      EDWARDS, T., sonnets of, 277.

      Elegiacs (hexameter and pentameter), 346, 355f.

      _Eleven Pains of Hell_, 161.

      ELIOT, GEORGE: _Spanish Gypsy_, 28*, 37*, 114*.

      Elision, 59f.

      ELLIS, A. J., on degrees of accent, 3, 4n.

      ELLIS,  R.:
        _Attis_, 339*;
        _Hymenæus of Catullus_, 339*;
        on classical metres, 339.

      "End-stopped" lines, 19, 187-190.

      _Enjambement_, 19:
        avoidance of in heroic verse, 187, 202;
        in Chaucer, 177;
        in couplets of the romantic poets, 208-212;
        in Milton, 233;
        in Shakspere's verse, 223.

      ETHEREDGE: _Comical Revenge_, 196.


      _Fair Helen_ (ballad), 9*, 79*.

      _Farmer's Complaint_, 14.

      Feet,  as measures of verse, 24;
        combinations and substitutions of, 49;
        names of, 24, 55f., 408f.

      Feminine ending, 25, 33;
        in Elizabethan blank verse, 226-228.

      Feminine rime, 121, 128f.

      FITZGERALD: _Rubáiyát_, 77*.

      Five-stress verse, 174-251;
        early examples of, 175;
        introduced by Chaucer, 177.

      FLETCHER, G.: _Lycia_, 273.

      FLETCHER, J., blank verse of, 226-228;
        couplets of, 210;
        _Faithful Shepherdess_, 184f.*;
        _Valentinian_, 225*.

      FLETCHER, J. (and SHAKSPERE): _Two Noble Kinsmen_, 85*.

      FLETCHER, J. B., on Spenser, 17.

      FLETCHER, P.: _Piscatory Eclogues_, 107*.

      Foot, significance of the term, 24, 393-395, 406-408.

      _Fortunae rota volvitur_, 259*.

      Four-stress verse, 151-173.

      French alexandrine, relation to English, 252f.

      French influence, on stanza forms, 63, 82f., 110.

      French lyrical forms, imitation of, 358-385.

      French verse, decasyllabic, 177f.;
        influence on heroic couplet, 187, 190;
        perfect rime in,  121 n.;
        regular cesura in, 17, 18;
        influence on octosyllabic couplet, 154, 160f., 163 n.

      French words, accent of, 11.

      FRERE, J. H.: _Monks and the Giants_, 100*.

      FROISSART, 358.


      Galliambic verse, 339.

      _Gammer Gurton's Needle_, 133*, 157*.

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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

DRYDEN: _Absalom and Achitophel_, 56f.*, 193f.*;
        _Alexander's Feast_, 310;
        _All for Love_, 196, 234*;
        _Annus Mirabilis_, 72*;
        blank verse of, 234f.;
        _Conquest of Granada_, 196;
        _Evening's Love_, 40*;
        heroic couplet of, 194f.;
        his introduction of rimed dramatic verse, 196-199;
        _Indian Queen_, 196;
        _Marriage à la Mode_, 195f.*, 234*;
        _Ode for St. Cecilia's Day_, imitated by Young, 88;
        _Ode on Mistress Killigrew_, 309f.*;
        odes of, 310;
        on heroic stanza, 72;
        on verse of Denham and Waller, 188;
        on verse of Donne, 183;
        _Song for St. Cecilia's Day_, 52f.*, 142*.

      DU BARTAS: _La Première Semaine_, 18*.

      DUNBAR: _Lament for the Makaris_, 78*;
        rime royal of, 94;
        _Tua Mariit Wemen_, 119f.*.


      EDWARDS, T., sonnets of, 277.

      Elegiacs (hexameter and pentameter), 346, 355f.

      _Eleven Pains of Hell_, 161.

      ELIOT, GEORGE: _Spanish Gypsy_, 28*, 37*, 114*.

      Elision, 59f.

      ELLIS, A. J., on degrees of accent, 3, 4n.

      ELLIS,  R.:
        _Attis_, 339*;
        _Hymenæus of Catullus_, 339*;
        on classical metres, 339.

      "End-stopped" lines, 19, 187-190.

      _Enjambement_, 19:
        avoidance of in heroic verse, 187, 202;
        in Chaucer, 177;
        in couplets of the romantic poets, 208-212;
        in Milton, 233;
        in Shakspere's verse, 223.

      ETHEREDGE: _Comical Revenge_, 196.


      _Fair Helen_ (ballad), 9*, 79*.

      _Farmer's Complaint_, 14.

      Feet,  as measures of verse, 24;
        combinations and substitutions of, 49;
        names of, 24, 55f., 408f.

      Feminine ending, 25, 33;
        in Elizabethan blank verse, 226-228.

      Feminine rime, 121, 128f.

      FITZGERALD: _Rubáiyát_, 77*.

      Five-stress verse, 174-251;
        early examples of, 175;
        introduced by Chaucer, 177.

      FLETCHER, G.: _Lycia_, 273.

      FLETCHER, J., blank verse of, 226-228;
        couplets of, 210;
        _Faithful Shepherdess_, 184f.*;
        _Valentinian_, 225*.

      FLETCHER, J. (and SHAKSPERE): _Two Noble Kinsmen_, 85*.

      FLETCHER, J. B., on Spenser, 17.

      FLETCHER, P.: _Piscatory Eclogues_, 107*.

      Foot, significance of the term, 24, 393-395, 406-408.

      _Fortunae rota volvitur_, 259*.

      Four-stress verse, 151-173.

      French alexandrine, relation to English, 252f.

      French influence, on stanza forms, 63, 82f., 110.

      French lyrical forms, imitation of, 358-385.

      French verse, decasyllabic, 177f.;
        influence on heroic couplet, 187, 190;
        perfect rime in,  121 n.;
        regular cesura in, 17, 18;
        influence on octosyllabic couplet, 154, 160f., 163 n.

      French words, accent of, 11.

      FRERE, J. H.: _Monks and the Giants_, 100*.

      FROISSART, 358.


      Galliambic verse, 339.

      _Gammer Gurton's Needle_, 133*, 157*.

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