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)
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)
XLV. Long Metres of Tennyson, Browning, Morris, and Swinburne
XLVII. The Various Attempts at "Hexameters" in English
XLVIII. Minor Imitations of Classical Metres
XLIX. Imitations of Artificial French Forms
LI. Some "Unusual" Metres and Disputed Scansions
BOOK II HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ENGLISH PROSODY
CHAPTER I FROM THE ORIGINS TO CHAUCER—THE CONSTITUTION OF ENGLISH VERSE [49]
CHAPTER II FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER—DISORGANISATION AND RECONSTRUCTION
CHAPTER III FROM SHAKESPEARE TO MILTON—THE CLOSE OF THE FORMATIVE PERIOD
CHAPTER IV HALT AND RETROSPECT—CONTINUATION ON HEROIC VERSE AND ITS COMPANIONS FROM DRYDEN TO CRABBE
CHAPTER V THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL—ITS PRECURSORS AND FIRST GREAT STAGE
CHAPTER VI THE LAST STAGE—TENNYSON TO SWINBURNE
CHAPTER VII RECAPITULATION OR SUMMARY VIEW OF STAGES OF ENGLISH PROSODY
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.
