The History of English Versification
by J. Schipper
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About this eBook
- Author
- Schipper, J. (Jakob), 1842-1915
- Title
- A History of English Versification
- Credits
- Produced by KD Weeks, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- English language -- Versification
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43352
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43352
- Release Date
- July 29, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Transcriber’s Note — A HISTORY OF ENGLISH VERSIFICATION
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS — LIST OF EDITIONS REFERRED TO — ERRATA
- 5.PART I. THE NATIVE METRE — CHAPTER I GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF METRE AND THE STRUCTURE OF VERSE — CHAPTER II THE ALLITERATIVE VERSE IN OLD ENGLISH — Analysis of the verse types. — The Principles of Alliteration. — The Lengthened Verse — Formation of Stanzas and Rhyme. — CHAPTER III THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE FREER FORM OF THE ALLITERATIVE LINE IN LATE OLD ENGLISH AND EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH — A. Transitional Forms. — B. The ‘Proverbs of Alfred’ and Layamon’s ‘Brut’. — C. The progressive form of the alliterative line, rhymed throughout. ‘King Horn.’ — CHAPTER IV THE ALLITERATIVE LINE IN ITS CONSERVATIVE FORM DURING THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES — A. The alliterative verse without rhyme. — B. The alliterative line combined with rhyme — C. Revival of the old four-beat alliterative verse in the Modern English period.
- 6.PART II. FOREIGN METRES — DIVISION I. The Foreign Metres in General CHAPTER V. INTRODUCTION — CHAPTER VI VERSE-RHYTHM — CHAPTER VII THE METRICAL TREATMENT OF SYLLABLES — CHAPTER VIII WORD-ACCENT — I. Word-accent in Middle English. — II. Word-accent in Modern English — DIVISION II Verse-forms Common to the Middle and Modern English Periods CHAPTER IX LINES OF EIGHT FEET, FOUR FEET, TWO FEET, AND ONE FOOT — CHAPTER X THE SEPTENARY, THE ALEXANDRINE, AND THE THREE-FOOT LINE — CHAPTER XI THE RHYMED FIVE-FOOT VERSE — DIVISION III Verse-forms Occurring in Modern English Poetry Only — CHAPTER XII BLANK VERSE — CHAPTER XIII TROCHAIC METRES — CHAPTER XIV IAMBIC-ANAPAESTIC AND TROCHAIC-DACTYLIC METRES — I. Iambic-anapaestic Metres. — II. Trochaic-dactylic Metres — CHAPTER XV NON-STROPHIC, ANISOMETRICAL COMBINATIONS OF RHYMED VERSE — CHAPTER XVI IMITATIONS OF CLASSICAL FORMS OF VERSE AND STANZA
- 7.PART I — CHAPTER I. DEFINITIONS STANZA, RHYME, VARIETIES OF RHYME — CHAPTER II THE RHYME AS A STRUCTURAL ELEMENT OF THE STANZA
- 8.PART II STANZAS COMMON TO MIDDLE AND MODERN ENGLISH, AND OTHERS FORMED ON THE ANALOGY OF THESE — CHAPTER III BIPARTITE EQUAL-MEMBERED STANZAS — I. Isometrical stanzas. — II. Anisometrical Stanzas. — CHAPTER IV ONE-RHYMED INDIVISIBLE AND BIPARTITE UNEQUAL-MEMBERED STANZAS — I. One-rhymed and indivisible stanzas. — II. Bipartite unequal-membered isometrical stanzas. — III. Bipartite unequal-membered anisometrical stanzas. — CHAPTER V TRIPARTITE STANZAS — I. Isometrical stanzas. — II. Anisometrical stanzas.
- 9.PART III MODERN STANZAS AND METRES OF FIXED FORM ORIGINATING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE RENASCENCE, OR INTRODUCED LATER — CHAPTER VI STANZAS OF THREE AND MORE PARTS CONSISTING OF UNEQUAL PARTS ONLY — CHAPTER VII THE SPENSERIAN STANZA AND FORMS DERIVED FROM IT — CHAPTER VIII THE EPITHALAMIUM STANZA AND OTHER ODIC STANZAS — CHAPTER IX THE SONNET — CHAPTER X OTHER ITALIAN AND FRENCH POETICAL FORMS OF A FIXED CHARACTER
- 10.NOTES — Transcriber’s Notes
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