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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

Triplet, used in heroic verse, 195, 208.

      TRISSINO, G., 214, 330.

      Trochaic verse, two-stress, 27 f.;
        three-stress, 33 f.;
        four-stress, 37 f.;
        five-stress, 41;
        six-stress, 43;
        seven-stress, 45, 259;
        eight-stress, 46 f.

      Trochee, 24;
        substituted for iambus, 57 f.

      _Troy Book_, 156.

      Truncation, 25, 33.

      "Tumbling verse," 157 f., 159;
        relation to decasyllabic, 179 f.

      TURBERVILLE: _Heroical Epistles_, 219.


      UDALL, N.: _Ralph Roister Doister_, 14*.


      VAN DYKE, H., on Tennyson's _Wellington Ode_, 317.

      Variety in verse, significant, 61.

      _Vers baïfins_, 331.

      _Vers de société_, 39, 365.

      _Versi sciolti_, 214, 330 f.

      Villanelle, 376-380.

      VILLON, 358, 363, 365, 367, 374.

      Virelai, 385.

      VOITURE, 358, 371;
        _Rondeau_, 371*.

      Vowels, long and short in English, 396 f.


      WACE, _Brut_, 160*.

      WADDINGTON: _Manuel des Pechiez_, 163 n.*.

      WALLER: _Battle of the Summer Islands_, 187*;
        _Go, Lovely Rose_, 89*;
        influence on heroic couplet, 187-190;
        _Of the Danger of his Majesty_, etc., 186*.

      WARD, on verse of Cowper, 240.

      WARNER, W.: _Albion's England_, 261*.

      WARTON brothers, revivers of sonnet, 277.

      WARTON, T., on verse of Joseph Hall, 182;
        _Sonnet on Dugdale's Monasticon_, 276 f.*.

      WATSON (of Cambridge), distich of, 341*.

      WATSON, T.: _Tears of Fancy_, 273.

      WATSON, W.: _Hymn to the Sea_, 355*;
        _Sonnet on History_, 297*;
        _Sonnet to the Sultan_, 289*.

      WATTS, T., on verse-form in poetry, 426 f.;
        _Sonnet's Voice_, 288*.

      _Wayle whyte, A,_ 86*.

      WEBBE, W.: _Discourse of English Poetrie_ cited, 46, 334, 341, 344;
        _Eclogue of Vergil_, 344*;
        _Sapphics_, 333*.

      WEBSTER: _Duchess of Malfi_, 228*.

      WENDELL, B., on Shakspere's verse, 223 f.

      WHITE, G., on _chant royal_, 368;
        on French lyrical forms, 359 f.

      WHITE, J. B.: _Sonnet to Night_, 281*.

      WHITMAN, W., verse of, 431.

      WOOD, H., on the heroic couplet, 189 f.

      WOODBERRY, on the heroic couplet, 207.

      WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality_ (ode), 312 f.*;
        _I wandered lonely_, 92*;
        _Norman Boy_, 264*;
        on blank verse, 232;
        on theory of metre, 417-420;
        _Peter Bell_, 91*;
        _Pet Lamb_, 257*;
        _Scorn not the Sonnet_, 279*;
        _Solitary Reaper_, 97 f.*;
        _Sonnet, The_, 278 f.*;
        sonnets of, 278, 280;
        _The World is too much with us_, 279 f.*;
        _Tintern Abbey_, 243*;
        _White Doe of Rylstone_, 171 f*.

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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

Triplet, used in heroic verse, 195, 208.

      TRISSINO, G., 214, 330.

      Trochaic verse, two-stress, 27 f.;
        three-stress, 33 f.;
        four-stress, 37 f.;
        five-stress, 41;
        six-stress, 43;
        seven-stress, 45, 259;
        eight-stress, 46 f.

      Trochee, 24;
        substituted for iambus, 57 f.

      _Troy Book_, 156.

      Truncation, 25, 33.

      "Tumbling verse," 157 f., 159;
        relation to decasyllabic, 179 f.

      TURBERVILLE: _Heroical Epistles_, 219.


      UDALL, N.: _Ralph Roister Doister_, 14*.


      VAN DYKE, H., on Tennyson's _Wellington Ode_, 317.

      Variety in verse, significant, 61.

      _Vers baïfins_, 331.

      _Vers de société_, 39, 365.

      _Versi sciolti_, 214, 330 f.

      Villanelle, 376-380.

      VILLON, 358, 363, 365, 367, 374.

      Virelai, 385.

      VOITURE, 358, 371;
        _Rondeau_, 371*.

      Vowels, long and short in English, 396 f.


      WACE, _Brut_, 160*.

      WADDINGTON: _Manuel des Pechiez_, 163 n.*.

      WALLER: _Battle of the Summer Islands_, 187*;
        _Go, Lovely Rose_, 89*;
        influence on heroic couplet, 187-190;
        _Of the Danger of his Majesty_, etc., 186*.

      WARD, on verse of Cowper, 240.

      WARNER, W.: _Albion's England_, 261*.

      WARTON brothers, revivers of sonnet, 277.

      WARTON, T., on verse of Joseph Hall, 182;
        _Sonnet on Dugdale's Monasticon_, 276 f.*.

      WATSON (of Cambridge), distich of, 341*.

      WATSON, T.: _Tears of Fancy_, 273.

      WATSON, W.: _Hymn to the Sea_, 355*;
        _Sonnet on History_, 297*;
        _Sonnet to the Sultan_, 289*.

      WATTS, T., on verse-form in poetry, 426 f.;
        _Sonnet's Voice_, 288*.

      _Wayle whyte, A,_ 86*.

      WEBBE, W.: _Discourse of English Poetrie_ cited, 46, 334, 341, 344;
        _Eclogue of Vergil_, 344*;
        _Sapphics_, 333*.

      WEBSTER: _Duchess of Malfi_, 228*.

      WENDELL, B., on Shakspere's verse, 223 f.

      WHITE, G., on _chant royal_, 368;
        on French lyrical forms, 359 f.

      WHITE, J. B.: _Sonnet to Night_, 281*.

      WHITMAN, W., verse of, 431.

      WOOD, H., on the heroic couplet, 189 f.

      WOODBERRY, on the heroic couplet, 207.

      WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality_ (ode), 312 f.*;
        _I wandered lonely_, 92*;
        _Norman Boy_, 264*;
        on blank verse, 232;
        on theory of metre, 417-420;
        _Peter Bell_, 91*;
        _Pet Lamb_, 257*;
        _Scorn not the Sonnet_, 279*;
        _Solitary Reaper_, 97 f.*;
        _Sonnet, The_, 278 f.*;
        sonnets of, 278, 280;
        _The World is too much with us_, 279 f.*;
        _Tintern Abbey_, 243*;
        _White Doe of Rylstone_, 171 f*.

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