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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

SPEDDING, J., on English hexameter, 351.

      SPENSER: _Amoretti_, 293*;
        _Faerie Queene_, 102*;
        free cesura in, 17;
        interest in classical metres, 332 f.;
        _Mother Hubbard's Tale_, 181*;
        _Shepherd's Calendar_, 15*, 89*, 158 f.*, 179 f.*;
        _Tetrasticon_, 332*;
        tumbling verse of, 159;
        unrimed sonnets of, 219;
        _Virgil's Gnat_, 98 f.*.

      Spenserian sonnet, 293*.

      Spenserian stanza, 102-106;
        stanzas influenced by, 107 f.

      Spondee, 56, 57.

      STANYHURST, R.: _Æneid_, 341 f.*;
        hexameters of, 342 f.

      Stanzas, 62-112;
        complex forms of, under French influence, 110;
        formed by refrains, 78;
        how determined and described, 62;
        tail-rime, 80-86.

      STEDMAN, E. C., on rhythm in poetry, 432 f.

      STENGEL, on French alexandrine, 252;
        on French decasyllabic verse, 177 f.;
        on octosyllabic verse, 160.

      STETSON, C. P.: _A Man Must Live_, 375 f.*.

      STEVENSON, R. L., on tone-color, 138.

      Stichic verse, 62.

      STILLINGFLEET, B., sonnets of, 277.

      _Stond wel, moder_, 84*.

      STONE, W. J.: _Odyssey_, 356*;
        on quantity in English verse, 356 f.

      Stress (see Accent).

      Substitution of feet, 55-61.

      SUCKLING: _A Soldier_, 86*.

      _Suete iesu, king of blysse_, 69*.

      SURREY, EARL OF, accents in verse of, 10;
        _Æneid_, 215 f.*;
        _How no Age is Content_, 266*;
        inventor of English sonnet, 290;
        _Psalm LV_., 255*;
        _Restless State of a Lover_, 71*;
        _Sonnet_, 290*;
        verse of, 216.

      SWIFT: _Death of Dr. Swift_, 169 f.*.

      SWINBURNE: _Armada_, 51*, 134*;
        _Atalanta in Calydon_, 9*, 146*;
        _Ballad of François Villon_, 367*;
        _Birds_, 45*;
        _Century of Roundels_, 42*;
        _Choriambics_, 340*;
        _Death of Wagner_, 60*;
        _Garden of Cymodoce_, 43*;
        _Hendecasyllabics_, 338;
        _Hesperia_, 44*;
        _Last Oracle_, 43*;
        _Laus Veneris_, 78*;
        _Leper_, 9*;
        _March_, 13*, 48*;
        _Night in Guernsey_, 47*;
        on choral ode of Milton, 325;
        on English hexameters, 353 f.;
        on sonnets of Wordsworth, 280;
        _On the Cliffs_, 329;
        on Whitman, 431 n.;
        _Roundel_, 376*;
        _Sapphics_, 340*;
        _Seaboard_, 51*;
        _Song in Season_, 28*;
        _Thalassius_, 329;
        _Tristram of Lyonesse_, 212*;
        _Winter in Northumberland_, 130 f.*, 147*.

      Syllable-counting, in Surrey's verse, 216;
        want of, in early English verse, 16, 112, 151.

      Syllables, artificially varied in length when in metre, 401-404;
        kinds of accented, 3.

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