tion>George Saintsbury
Historical Manual of English Prosody
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664605436
Table of Contents
BOOK I INTRODUCTORY AND DOGMATIC
CHAPTER II SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH PROSODY—THE ACCENTUAL OR STRESS
CHAPTER III SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH PROSODY—THE SYLLABIC
CHAPTER IV SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH PROSODY—THE FOOT
CHAPTER V RULES OF THE FOOT SYSTEM
§ C. Equivalence and Substitution
CHAPTER VI CONTINUOUS ILLUSTRATIONS OF ENGLISH SCANSION ACCORDING TO THE FOOT SYSTEM
I. Old English Period Scansion only dimly visible.
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.
XXI. Spenser [37] at Different Periods
XXII. Examples of the Development of Blank Verse
XXIII. Examples of Elizabethan Lyric
XXIV. Early Continuous Anapæsts
