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Author

Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933

Title

Historical Manual of English Prosody

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Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Simon Gardner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

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PE: Language and Literatures: English

Subject

English language -- Versification

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56187

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56187

Release Date

December 16, 2017

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's Notes — HISTORICAL MANUAL OF ENGLISH PROSODY
2. 2.PREFACE — FOOTNOTES:
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.BOOK I INTRODUCTORY AND DOGMATIC
5. 5.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
6. 6.CHAPTER II SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH PROSODY—THE ACCENTUAL OR STRESS — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.CHAPTER III SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH PROSODY—THE SYLLABIC — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER IV SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH PROSODY—THE FOOT — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER V RULES OF THE FOOT SYSTEM — § A. Feet — § B. Constitution of Feet — § C. Equivalence and Substitution — § D. Pause — § E. Line-Combination — § F. Rhyme — § G. Miscellaneous — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER VI CONTINUOUS ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH SCANSION ACCORDING TO THE FOOT SYSTEM — I. Old English Period Scansion only dimly visible. — II. Late Old English with Nisus towards Metre ( "Grave" Poem. Guest's text, spelling, and accentuation; the usual marks for the latter being substituted for his dividing bars, and foot division added in dots. ) — III. Transition Period Metre struggling to assert itself in a New Way. Part of the verses of St. Godric. — IV. Early Middle English Period Attempt at merely Syllabic Uniformity with Unbroken Iambic Run and no Rhyme. Orm. — V. Early Middle English Period Conflict or Indecision between Accentual Rhythm and Metrical Scheme. Layamon. — VI. Early Middle English Period The Appearance and Development of the "Fourteener." — VII. Early Middle English Period The Plain and Equivalenced Octosyllable. — VIII. Early Middle English Period The Romance-Six or "Rime Couée." — IX. Early Middle English Period Miscellaneous Stanzas. — X. Early Middle English Period Appearance of the Decasyllable. — XI. Later Middle English Period The Alliterative Revival—Pure. — XII. Later Middle English Period The Alliterative Revival—Mixed. — XIII. Later Middle English Period Potentially Metrical Lines in Langland (see Book II ). — XIV. Later Middle English Period Scansions from Chaucer. — XV. Later Middle English Period Variations from Strict Iambic Norm in Gower. — XVI. Transition Period Examples of Break-down in Literary Verse. — XVII. Transition Period Examples of True Prosody in Ballad, Carols, etc. — XVIII. Transition Period Examples of Skeltonic and other Doggerel. — XIX. Transition Period Examples from the Scottish Poets. — XX. Early Elizabethan Period Examples of Reformed Metre from Wyatt, Surrey, and other Poets before Spenser. — XXI. Spenser [37] at Different Periods — XXII. Examples of the Development of Blank Verse — XXIII. Examples of Elizabethan Lyric — XXIV. Early Continuous Anapæsts — XXV. The Enjambed Heroic Couplet (1580-1660) — XXVI. The Stopped Heroic Couplet (1580-1660) — XXVII. Various Forms of Octosyllable-Heptasyllable (late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century) — XXVIII. "Common," "Long," and "In Memoriam" Measure (Seventeenth Century) — XXIX. Improved Anapæstic Measures ( Dryden, Anon., Prior ) — XXX. " Pindarics " ( Seventeenth Century ) — XXXI. The Heroic Couplet from Dryden to Crabbe — XXXII. Eighteenth-Century Blank Verse — XXXIII. The Regularised Pindaric Ode — XXXIV. Lighter Eighteenth-Century Lyric — XXXV. The Revival of Equivalence ( Chatterton and Blake ) — XXXVI. Rhymeless Attempts ( Collins to Shelley ) — XXXVII. The Revived Ballad (Percy to Coleridge) — XXXVIII — Note on the Application of the "Christabel" System to Nineteenth-Century Lyric generally. — XXXIX. Nineteenth-Century Couplet (Leigh Hunt to Mr. Swinburne ) — XL. Nineteenth-Century Blank Verse (Wordsworth to Mr. Swinburne) — XLI. The Non-Equivalenced Octosyllable of Keats and Morris — XLII. The Continuous Alexandrine (Drayton and Browning) — XLIII — XLIV. The Stages of the Metre of "Dolores" and the Dedication of "Poems and Ballads" — XLV. Long Metres of Tennyson, Browning, Morris, and Swinburne — XLVI. The Later Sonnet — XLVII. The Various Attempts at "Hexameters" in English — XLVIII. Minor Imitations of Classical Metres — XLIX. Imitations of Artificial French Forms — L. Later Rhymelessness — LI. Some "Unusual" Metres and Disputed Scansions — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.BOOK II HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ENGLISH PROSODY
12. 12.CHAPTER I FROM THE ORIGINS TO CHAUCER—THE CONSTITUTION OF ENGLISH VERSE [49] — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.CHAPTER II FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER—DISORGANISATION AND RECONSTRUCTION — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.CHAPTER III FROM SHAKESPEARE TO MILTON—THE CLOSE OF THE FORMATIVE PERIOD — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.CHAPTER IV HALT AND RETROSPECT—CONTINUATION ON HEROIC VERSE AND ITS COMPANIONS FROM DRYDEN TO CRABBE — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.CHAPTER V THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL—ITS PRECURSORS AND FIRST GREAT STAGE — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.CHAPTER VI THE LAST STAGE—TENNYSON TO SWINBURNE — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.CHAPTER VII RECAPITULATION OR SUMMARY VIEW OF STAGES OF ENGLISH PROSODY — I. Old English Period — II. Before or very soon after 1200 Earliest Middle English Period. — III. Middle and Later Thirteenth Century Second Early Middle English Period. — IV. Earlier Fourteenth Century Central Period of Middle English. — V. Later Fourteenth Century Crowning Period of Middle English. — VI. Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries The Decadence of Middle English Prosody. — VII. Mid-Sixteenth Century The Recovery of Rhythm. — VIII. Late Sixteenth Century The Perfecting of Metre and of Poetical Diction. — IX. Early Seventeenth Century The further Development of Lyric, Stanza, and Blank Verse. Insurgence and Division of the Couplet. — X. Mid-Seventeenth Century Milton. — XI. The Later Seventeenth Century Dryden. — XII. The Eighteenth Century — XIII. The Early Nineteenth Century and the Romantic Revival — XIV. The Later Nineteenth Century
19. 19.BOOK III HISTORICAL SURVEY OF VIEWS ON PROSODY
20. 20.CHAPTER I BEFORE 1700 — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.CHAPTER II FROM BYSSHE TO GUEST — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.CHAPTER III LATER NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROSODISTS — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.BOOK IV AUXILIARY APPARATUS
24. 24.CHAPTER I GLOSSARY — TABLE OF FEET — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.CHAPTER II REASONED LIST OF POETS WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO THEIR PROSODIC QUALITY AND INFLUENCE
26. 26.CHAPTER III ORIGINS OF LINES AND STANZAS — A. Lines — B. Stanzas, etc. — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.CHAPTER IV BIBLIOGRAPHY
28. 28.INDEX — Transcriber's Notes

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