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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

MARLOWE, blank verse  of, 221;
        couplets of, 210;
        _Faustus_, 57*, 219 f.*;
        _Hero and Leander_, 181*, 190;
        _Jew of Malta_, 139*;
        _Tamburlaine_, 219*.

      _Marriage of Wit and Science_, 255 f.*.

      MASON, W., sonnets of, 277.

      MASSINGER, blank verse of, 230;
        _New Way to Pay Old Debts_, 229*.

      MASSON, on Milton's tailed sonnet, 276.

      MAYOR, J. B.: _Chapters on English Metre_ cited, 409;
        on Browning's blank verse, 249;
        on Ellis's view of accent, 4 n.;
        on substitutions of feet, 60.

      MEREDITH, G.: _Phaëthon_, 339.

      Metre, its place and function in poetry, 413-436.

      Metrical romances, tail-rime in, 84.

      MEYER, C. F., on rime, 123, 124.

      MIDDLETON, blank verse of, 228;
        _Changeling_, 227*.

      MILL, J. S., on rhythm in poetry, 433.

      MILTON: _At a Solemn Music_, 329;
        blank verse of, 232 f.;
        _Il Penseroso_, 166 f.*;
        _L'Allegro_, 38*;
        _Lycidas_, 99*, 142*;
        _Nativity Ode_, 33*, 107*;
        _On his Blindness_, 275*;
        _On Time_, 329;
        _Paradise Lost_, 4*, 7*, 15*, 57*, 58*, 59*, 140*, 141*, 230 f.*;
        _Passion_, 94;
        _Psalm II_., 66*;
        _Psalm VI_., 74*;
        _Samson Agonistes_, 231 f.*, 323-325*;
        _Sonnet on Piedmont Massacre_, 141*;
        sonnets of, 276.

      MINOT, L.: _Battle of Halidon Hill_, 96*.

      _Misfortunes of Arthur_, 219.

      MITCHELL, S. WEIR: _Psalm of the Waters_, 36*.

      MOLZA, FRANCESCO, 216.

      "_Monk's Tale_ stanza," 97.

      _Monologue d'outre Tombe_, 386*.

      MOODY, W. V.: _Menagerie_, 91*;
        _Ode in Time of Hesitation_, 321-323*.

      MOORE, T.: _Believe me, if all those endearing young charms_, 40*;
        _Down in yon Summervale_, 121 n.*;
        _Go Where Glory Waits Thee_, 33 f.*.

      MORRIS, R., on early octosyllabic verse, 162.

      MORRIS, W.: _Earthly Paradise_, 93 f.*, 173*;
        _Fair Spring Morning_, 329;
        _Folk-Mote by the River_, 159*;
        _Jason_, 213*.

      MOULTON, R. G., on Browning's _Caliban_, 32.

      MOUSSET, classical metres of, 331.

      Music, its relation to verse, 391-396, 407 n., 413 f., 434-436.

      _Must I be Carried to the Skies_, 262*.

      Mystery plays, verse of, 94 f., 112, 265.


      NASH, T., on English hexameters, 342;
        Preface to _Menaphon_, 215.

      _Ne mai no lewed_, etc., 109 f.*.

      NEWCOMER, A. G., on wrenched accent, 10.

      NEWMAN, metre of his _Iliad_ translation, 262.

      NORDEN, on rime, 125.

      Norse verse, influence on Anglo-Saxon, 126;
        stanza in, 63.

      _Nutbrowne Maide_ (ballad), 132*.


      OCCLEVE, rime royal of, 94.

      Octosyllabic couplet, 160-173.

      Ode (The), 298-329.

      OLDHAM, J.: _Satires upon the Jesuits_, 192*.

      Onomatopœia, 135 f.

      _Ormulum_, 260*.

      O'SHAUGHNESSY, A.: _Fountain of Tears_, 36*.

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