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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

SERAFINO: _Strambotti_, 272.

      Sestina, 383-385.

      SHAKSPERE: _As You Like It_, 57*;
        blank verse of, 223 f.;
        _Henry V._, 140*;
        heroic verse of, 184;
        _It was a lover_, etc., 9*;
        _Julius Cæsar_, 58*;
        _King John_, 20*;
        _Love's Labor's Lost_, 38*, 183 f.*;
        _Macbeth_, 20*;
        _Measure for Measure_, 20*, 222*;
        _Merchant of Venice_, 57*;
        _Midsummer Night's Dream_, 26*, 31*, 139*;
        _Much Ado_, 215;
        _Phœnix and the Turtle_, 63*, 74*;
        _Rape of Lucrece_, 93*;
        _Richard II._, 20*;
        _Romeo and Juliet_, 7*, 57*;
        _Sonnets_, 293*, 294*;
        sonnets of, 294 f.;
        _Tempest_, 37*, 222 f.*;
        _Troilus and Cressida_, 138*;
        _Twelfth Night_, 51 f.*;
        _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, 221*;
        _Venus and Adonis_, 92*.

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

      SHARP, W., on the sonnet, 268 n.

      SHELLEY: _Adonais_, 105 f.*;
        _Alastor_, 243*;
        _Arethusa_, 28*;
        _Epipsychidion_, 210*;
        _Flight of Love_, 50 f.*;
        heroic verse of, 210;
        _Ode to Naples_, 314 f.*;
        _Ode to West Wind_, 66 f.*;
        _Ozymandias_, 281 f.*;
        _Queen Mab_, 329;
        _Sensitive Plant_, 69*;
        sonnets of, 282;
        _To a Skylark_, 34*;
        use of Spenserian stanza, 106;
        view of verse-form in poetry, 422 f.

      SHENSTONE, heroic stanza of, 73;
        _Pastoral Ballad_, 35*;
        _Schoolmistress_, 104.

      SHERMAN, F. D.: _Ballade to Austin Dobson_, 366 f.*.

      SIDNEY: _Anacreontics_, 332*;
        _Asclepiadics_, 331*;
        _Astrophel and Stella_, 74*, 77*, 256*, 272*, 273*, 291*;
        _Dorus and Zelmane_, 340 f.*;
        hexameters of, 341;
        _Mopsa_, 266*;
        _Phaleuciakes_, 331*;
        _Psalm VIII_., 69*;
        sonnets of, 273;
        _Thyrsis and Dorus_, 65 f.*;
        view of verse-form in poetry, 416 f.

      SIEVERS, on Anglo-Saxon verse, 152 f.;
        on stanzaic and stichic verse, 63.

      _Sir Fyrumbras_, 261*.

      _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_, 109, 155 f.*.

      SKALAGRIMSSON, Egil, 126.

      SKEAT, on sources of Chaucer's couplet, 178;
        theory of English verse, 394 n.

      SKELTON: _Colyn Cloute_, 32*;
        rime royal of, 94.

      _Song of Songs_ (French version), 81*.

      Sonnet, 267-297;
        bipartite structure of, 268, 270, 280, 282, 285, 286, 290, 293;
        English form of, 290;
        Italian form of, 270;
        revived in 18th century, 277;
        sequences, 273;
        "Ten Commandments" of, 268 n.

      Sonnets on the sonnet, 278, 279, 284, 288.

      Sound-qualities of verse made expressive of sense, 135-137.

      SOUTHEY: _Curse of Kehama_, 329;
        hexameters of, 347 f.;
        _Sapphics_, 337*;
        _Vision of Judgment_, 347*.

      Spanish verse, 28, 115;
        assonance in, 114.

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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

SERAFINO: _Strambotti_, 272.

      Sestina, 383-385.

      SHAKSPERE: _As You Like It_, 57*;
        blank verse of, 223 f.;
        _Henry V._, 140*;
        heroic verse of, 184;
        _It was a lover_, etc., 9*;
        _Julius Cæsar_, 58*;
        _King John_, 20*;
        _Love's Labor's Lost_, 38*, 183 f.*;
        _Macbeth_, 20*;
        _Measure for Measure_, 20*, 222*;
        _Merchant of Venice_, 57*;
        _Midsummer Night's Dream_, 26*, 31*, 139*;
        _Much Ado_, 215;
        _Phœnix and the Turtle_, 63*, 74*;
        _Rape of Lucrece_, 93*;
        _Richard II._, 20*;
        _Romeo and Juliet_, 7*, 57*;
        _Sonnets_, 293*, 294*;
        sonnets of, 294 f.;
        _Tempest_, 37*, 222 f.*;
        _Troilus and Cressida_, 138*;
        _Twelfth Night_, 51 f.*;
        _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, 221*;
        _Venus and Adonis_, 92*.

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

      SHARP, W., on the sonnet, 268 n.

      SHELLEY: _Adonais_, 105 f.*;
        _Alastor_, 243*;
        _Arethusa_, 28*;
        _Epipsychidion_, 210*;
        _Flight of Love_, 50 f.*;
        heroic verse of, 210;
        _Ode to Naples_, 314 f.*;
        _Ode to West Wind_, 66 f.*;
        _Ozymandias_, 281 f.*;
        _Queen Mab_, 329;
        _Sensitive Plant_, 69*;
        sonnets of, 282;
        _To a Skylark_, 34*;
        use of Spenserian stanza, 106;
        view of verse-form in poetry, 422 f.

      SHENSTONE, heroic stanza of, 73;
        _Pastoral Ballad_, 35*;
        _Schoolmistress_, 104.

      SHERMAN, F. D.: _Ballade to Austin Dobson_, 366 f.*.

      SIDNEY: _Anacreontics_, 332*;
        _Asclepiadics_, 331*;
        _Astrophel and Stella_, 74*, 77*, 256*, 272*, 273*, 291*;
        _Dorus and Zelmane_, 340 f.*;
        hexameters of, 341;
        _Mopsa_, 266*;
        _Phaleuciakes_, 331*;
        _Psalm VIII_., 69*;
        sonnets of, 273;
        _Thyrsis and Dorus_, 65 f.*;
        view of verse-form in poetry, 416 f.

      SIEVERS, on Anglo-Saxon verse, 152 f.;
        on stanzaic and stichic verse, 63.

      _Sir Fyrumbras_, 261*.

      _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_, 109, 155 f.*.

      SKALAGRIMSSON, Egil, 126.

      SKEAT, on sources of Chaucer's couplet, 178;
        theory of English verse, 394 n.

      SKELTON: _Colyn Cloute_, 32*;
        rime royal of, 94.

      _Song of Songs_ (French version), 81*.

      Sonnet, 267-297;
        bipartite structure of, 268, 270, 280, 282, 285, 286, 290, 293;
        English form of, 290;
        Italian form of, 270;
        revived in 18th century, 277;
        sequences, 273;
        "Ten Commandments" of, 268 n.

      Sonnets on the sonnet, 278, 279, 284, 288.

      Sound-qualities of verse made expressive of sense, 135-137.

      SOUTHEY: _Curse of Kehama_, 329;
        hexameters of, 347 f.;
        _Sapphics_, 337*;
        _Vision of Judgment_, 347*.

      Spanish verse, 28, 115;
        assonance in, 114.

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