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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

HERFORD, on verse of Leigh Hunt, 208.

      Heroic couplet (see Decasyllabic couplet).

      Heroic stanza, 71-73.

      HERRICK: _His Poetry his Pillar_, 27*;
        _His Recantation_, 26*;
        _Thanksgiving to God_, 90*;
        _To Julia_, 64*;
        _To the Lark_, 26*;
        _Upon his Departure_, 25*.

      Hexameter (dactylic), 340-356.

      _Hildebrandlied_, 124, 152.

      HILL, A.: _Praise of Blank Verse_, 239 n.*.

      HOBBES: _Homer_, 73.

      HOLMES, O. W.: _Chambered Nautilus_, 108*;
        on heroic couplet, 203 n.

      Homœoteleuton, relation to rime, 125.

      HOOD, T.: _Bridge of Sighs_, 30*, 130*.

      HORACE, stanza of, imitated, 77.

      Horatian ode, 298.

      Hudibrastic couplet, 167.

      HUGO, V., pantoums of, 386.

      HUNT, L., on Coleridge's verse, 16 n.;
        on  sonnets of Bowles, 278;
        on sonnets of Drummond, 274;
        on verse-form in poetry, 425 f.;
        _Story of Rimini_, 207 f.*;
        _The Fish to the Man_, 283*;
        _Wealth and Womanhood_, 266*.

      _Hymn to the Virgin_ ("Blessed beo thu"), 260*;
        ("Of on that is"), 87*.

      Hypermetrical syllables, 58-60.


      Iambic verse, one-stress, 25;
        two-stress, 26 f.;
        three-stress, 32 f.;
        four-stress, 160-173;
        five-stress, 174-251;
        six-stress, 252-258;
        seven-stress, 44 f., 260-264;
        eight-stress, 46.

      Iambus, 24;
        substituted for trisyllabic foot, 60.

      Inclusive rime, 74-76.

      INGELOW, J.: _Give us Love and Give us Peace_, 49*.

      _In Memoriam_ stanza, 76.

      Inversion of accent, 7, 8, 55, 56, 57 f.

      Italian sonnet, 267-271.

      Italian verse, influence on Chaucer, 178 f.;
        rimes in, 130;
        _terza rima_ derived from, 65.


      JAMES I. (of England): _Reulis and Cautelis_ cited, 94 n., 120, 157 n.

      JAMES I. (of Scotland): _King's Quhair_, 93*.

      _Jesu for thi muchele miht_, 111*.

      JOHNSON, S.: _London_, 205;
        on blank verse, 205;
        on Cowleyan ode, 308 f.;
        on Dryden's Killigrew Ode, 310;
        on tone-color, 137;
        on verse-form in poetry, 417;
        _Vanity of Human Wishes_, 205.

      JONSON, B.: _Elegy_, 74*;
        _Epigrams_, 185*;
        _Epitaph_, 92*;
        _Epitaph on Salathiel Pavey_, 71*;
        _Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme_, 123;
        influence on classical school of verse, 186;
        _Pindaric Ode_, 299 f.*;
        _Sad Shepherd_, 225;
        _Sejanus_, 224*.

      _Judas_, 254.


      KAWCZYNSKI, on alliteration, 117;
        on origin of alexandrine, 252.

      KEATS: _Chapman's Homer_, 282;
        _Endymion_, 209*;
        _Eve of St. Agnes_, 105*;
        _Grasshopper and Cricket_, 282*;
        _Hyperion_, 242*;
        _Isabella_, 100*;
        _Lamia_, 8*;
        _Mermaid Tavern_, 38*;
        _Ode to Psyche_, 143*;
        Sonnets of, 282;
        _Sonnet to Haydon_, 22*.

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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

HERFORD, on verse of Leigh Hunt, 208.

      Heroic couplet (see Decasyllabic couplet).

      Heroic stanza, 71-73.

      HERRICK: _His Poetry his Pillar_, 27*;
        _His Recantation_, 26*;
        _Thanksgiving to God_, 90*;
        _To Julia_, 64*;
        _To the Lark_, 26*;
        _Upon his Departure_, 25*.

      Hexameter (dactylic), 340-356.

      _Hildebrandlied_, 124, 152.

      HILL, A.: _Praise of Blank Verse_, 239 n.*.

      HOBBES: _Homer_, 73.

      HOLMES, O. W.: _Chambered Nautilus_, 108*;
        on heroic couplet, 203 n.

      Homœoteleuton, relation to rime, 125.

      HOOD, T.: _Bridge of Sighs_, 30*, 130*.

      HORACE, stanza of, imitated, 77.

      Horatian ode, 298.

      Hudibrastic couplet, 167.

      HUGO, V., pantoums of, 386.

      HUNT, L., on Coleridge's verse, 16 n.;
        on  sonnets of Bowles, 278;
        on sonnets of Drummond, 274;
        on verse-form in poetry, 425 f.;
        _Story of Rimini_, 207 f.*;
        _The Fish to the Man_, 283*;
        _Wealth and Womanhood_, 266*.

      _Hymn to the Virgin_ ("Blessed beo thu"), 260*;
        ("Of on that is"), 87*.

      Hypermetrical syllables, 58-60.


      Iambic verse, one-stress, 25;
        two-stress, 26 f.;
        three-stress, 32 f.;
        four-stress, 160-173;
        five-stress, 174-251;
        six-stress, 252-258;
        seven-stress, 44 f., 260-264;
        eight-stress, 46.

      Iambus, 24;
        substituted for trisyllabic foot, 60.

      Inclusive rime, 74-76.

      INGELOW, J.: _Give us Love and Give us Peace_, 49*.

      _In Memoriam_ stanza, 76.

      Inversion of accent, 7, 8, 55, 56, 57 f.

      Italian sonnet, 267-271.

      Italian verse, influence on Chaucer, 178 f.;
        rimes in, 130;
        _terza rima_ derived from, 65.


      JAMES I. (of England): _Reulis and Cautelis_ cited, 94 n., 120, 157 n.

      JAMES I. (of Scotland): _King's Quhair_, 93*.

      _Jesu for thi muchele miht_, 111*.

      JOHNSON, S.: _London_, 205;
        on blank verse, 205;
        on Cowleyan ode, 308 f.;
        on Dryden's Killigrew Ode, 310;
        on tone-color, 137;
        on verse-form in poetry, 417;
        _Vanity of Human Wishes_, 205.

      JONSON, B.: _Elegy_, 74*;
        _Epigrams_, 185*;
        _Epitaph_, 92*;
        _Epitaph on Salathiel Pavey_, 71*;
        _Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme_, 123;
        influence on classical school of verse, 186;
        _Pindaric Ode_, 299 f.*;
        _Sad Shepherd_, 225;
        _Sejanus_, 224*.

      _Judas_, 254.


      KAWCZYNSKI, on alliteration, 117;
        on origin of alexandrine, 252.

      KEATS: _Chapman's Homer_, 282;
        _Endymion_, 209*;
        _Eve of St. Agnes_, 105*;
        _Grasshopper and Cricket_, 282*;
        _Hyperion_, 242*;
        _Isabella_, 100*;
        _Lamia_, 8*;
        _Mermaid Tavern_, 38*;
        _Ode to Psyche_, 143*;
        Sonnets of, 282;
        _Sonnet to Haydon_, 22*.

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