influence of, on lyrical forms of 17th century, 90;
La Corona, 275;
Satires, 183*.
Douglas, G.: Palace of Honour, 101*, 133*.
Dowden, on Shakspere's verse, 184.
Drama, rime in, 184;
verse of, characteristic, 395.
Drayton: Agincourt, 86*;
Amouret Anacreontic, 26*;
Idea, 273, 293;
Love's Farewell, 292*;
Polyolbion, 256f.*.
Drummond, W.: Sonnet, 274*.
Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, 56f.*, 193f.*;
Alexander's Feast, 310;
All for Love, 196, 234*;
Annus Mirabilis, 72*;
blank verse of, 234f.;
Conquest of Granada, 196;
Evening's Love, 40*;
heroic couplet of, 194f.;
his introduction of rimed dramatic verse, 196-199;
Indian Queen, 196;
Marriage à la Mode, 195f.*, 234*;
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, imitated by Young, 88;
Ode on Mistress Killigrew, 309f.*;
odes of, 310;
on heroic stanza, 72;
on verse of Denham and Waller, 188;
on verse of Donne, 183;
Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 52f.*, 142*.
Du Bartas: La Première Semaine, 18*.
Dunbar: Lament for the Makaris, 78*;
rime royal of, 94;
Tua Mariit Wemen, 119f.*.
Edwards, T., sonnets of, 277.
Elegiacs (hexameter and pentameter), 346, 355f.
Eleven Pains of Hell, 161.
Eliot, George: Spanish Gypsy, 28*, 37*, 114*.
Elision, 59f.
Ellis, A. J., on degrees of accent, 3, 4n.
Ellis, R.:
Attis, 339*;
Hymenæus of Catullus, 339*;
on classical metres, 339.
"End-stopped" lines, 19, 187-190.
Enjambement, 19:
avoidance of in heroic verse, 187, 202;
in Chaucer, 177;
in couplets of the romantic poets, 208-212;
in Milton, 233;
in Shakspere's verse, 223.
Etheredge: Comical Revenge, 196.
Fair Helen (ballad), 9*, 79*.
Farmer's Complaint, 14.
Feet, as measures of verse, 24;
combinations and substitutions of, 49;
names of, 24, 55f., 408f.
Feminine ending, 25, 33;
in Elizabethan blank verse, 226-228.
Feminine rime, 121, 128f.
Fitzgerald: Rubáiyát, 77*.
Five-stress verse, 174-251;
early examples of, 175;
introduced by Chaucer, 177.
Fletcher, G.: Lycia, 273.
Fletcher, J., blank verse of, 226-228;
couplets of, 210;
Faithful Shepherdess, 184f.*;
Valentinian, 225*.
Fletcher, J. (and Shakspere): Two Noble Kinsmen, 85*.
Fletcher, J. B., on Spenser, 17.
Fletcher, P.: Piscatory Eclogues, 107*.
Foot, significance of the term, 24, 393-395, 406-408.
Fortunae rota volvitur, 259*.
Four-stress verse, 151-173.
French alexandrine, relation to English, 252f.
French influence, on stanza forms, 63, 82f., 110.
French lyrical forms, imitation of, 358-385.
French verse, decasyllabic, 177f.;
influence on heroic couplet, 187, 190;
perfect rime in, 121 n.;
regular cesura in, 17, 18;
influence on octosyllabic couplet, 154, 160f., 163 n.
French words, accent of, 11.
Frere, J. H.: Monks and the Giants, 100*.
Froissart, 358.
Galliambic verse, 339.
Gammer Gurton's Needle, 133*, 157*.
Gascoigne: Notes of Instruction cited, 17, 94 n., 265, 291 n.;
Steel Glass, 18*, 218.
Gascoigne (and Kinwelmarshe): Jocasta, 218.
Gay, J.: Fables, 168f.*.
Genesis and Exodus, 162*.
German hexameters, influence of, 345, 349.
Germanic verse, alliteration in, 116f.;
avoidance of syllable-counting in, 151;
irregular time-intervals in, 12.
Glover: Leonidas, 238.
Godric (St.): Sainte Marie, 126*;
verse of, 161.
God Ureisun, 118*.
Goethe, hexameters of, 345, 349;
his view of metre in the drama, 418 n.
Goldsmith: Deserted Village, 204*;
Essay on Versification, 336;
on blank verse, 205;
Retaliation, 39*.
Gollancz, I., on the stanza of The Pearl, 109.
Goodell, T. G.: Quantity in English Verse, 406.
Gosse, E.: After Anyte of Tegea, 370*;
Ballad of Dead Cities, 364*;
on Cowleyan ode, 309;
on decadent blank verse, 230;
on Dryden's blank verse, 235;
on heroic stanza, 73;
on ode, 298;
on rime in the drama, 197;
on sonnet of Walsh, 277;
on verse of Denham, 192;
on verse of Goldsmith, 204;
on verse of Oldham, 193;
on verse of Parnell, 168;
on verse of Swift, 170;
on verse of Waller and contemporaries, 189, 190, 191 n.;
Praise of Dionysus, 368;
Sestina, 384 f.*;
Villanelle, 379 f.*.
Gower, ballades of, 362;
Confessio Amantis, 165*;
couplets of, 166.
Grace of God, 71*.
Graunson, French ballades of, 362.
Gray: Bard, 307;
Elegy in a Churchyard, 72*;
on verse of Dryden, 194;
Progress of Poesy, 306 f.*;
Sonnet on West, 295 f.*.
Greek ode, imitated in English, 300, 323-328.
Greene: Morando, 219.
Grein, on Riming Poem, 126 n.
Grimald: Death of Zoroas, 218.
Grimm, on rime, 124.
Guest, on Poulter's Measure, 265;
on significance of sounds, 136.
Gummere, F. B., on early English five-stress verse, 180;
on rhythm in poetry, 433-436.
GURNEY, E., on Browning's rimes, 129 f.;
on the function of metre in poetry, 427-429.
Hall, J.: Virgidemiarum, 182*, 343*.
Hammond, J.: Love Elegies, 73.
Harvey, G., influence on imitation of classical metres, 332 f.
Havelok the Dane, 164*.
Hawes, rime royal of, 94.
Hawtrey, hexameter of, 351, 352*, 354.
Hazlitt, W., on verse-form in poetry, 423-425.
Hegel, on metre in poetry, 427.
Heliand, 124.
Henley, W. E.: Easy is the Triolet, 381*;
Villanelle, 378 f.*;
Ways of Death, 370 f.*;
What is to Come, 375*.
Herbert, G.: Gifts of God, 90*;
Sonnet on Sin, 295*.
Herder, on rime, 123.
Herenc: Doctrinal, 252.
Herford, on verse of Leigh Hunt, 208.
Heroic couplet (see Decasyllabic couplet).
Heroic stanza, 71-73.
Herrick: His Poetry his Pillar, 27*;
His Recantation, 26*;
Thanksgiving to God, 90*;
To Julia, 64*;
To the Lark, 26*;
Upon his Departure, 25*.
Hexameter (dactylic), 340-356.
Hildebrandlied, 124, 152.
Hill, A.: Praise of Blank Verse, 239 n.*.
Hobbes: Homer, 73.
Holmes, O. W.: Chambered Nautilus, 108*;
on heroic couplet, 203 n.
Homœoteleuton, relation to rime, 125.
Hood, T.: Bridge of Sighs, 30*, 130*.
Horace, stanza of, imitated, 77.
Horatian ode, 298.
Hudibrastic couplet, 167.
Hugo, V., pantoums of, 386.
Hunt, L., on Coleridge's verse, 16 n.;
on sonnets of Bowles, 278;
on sonnets of Drummond, 274;
on verse-form in poetry, 425 f.;
Story of Rimini, 207 f.*;
The Fish to the Man, 283*;
Wealth and Womanhood, 266*.
Hymn to the Virgin ("Blessed beo thu"), 260*;
("Of on that is"), 87*.
Hypermetrical syllables, 58-60.
Iambic verse, one-stress, 25;
two-stress, 26 f.;
three-stress, 32 f.;
four-stress, 160-173;
five-stress, 174-251;
six-stress, 252-258;
seven-stress, 44 f., 260-264;
eight-stress, 46.
Iambus, 24;
substituted for trisyllabic foot, 60.
Inclusive rime, 74-76.
Ingelow, J.: Give us Love and Give us Peace, 49*.
In Memoriam stanza, 76.
Inversion of accent, 7, 8, 55, 56, 57 f.
Italian sonnet, 267-271.
Italian verse, influence on Chaucer, 178 f.;
rimes in, 130;
terza rima derived from, 65.
James I. (of England): Reulis and Cautelis cited, 94 n., 120, 157 n.
James I. (of Scotland): King's Quhair, 93*.
Jesu for thi muchele miht, 111*.
Johnson, S.: London, 205;
on blank verse, 205;
on Cowleyan ode, 308 f.;
on Dryden's Killigrew Ode, 310;
on tone-color, 137;
on verse-form in poetry, 417;
Vanity of Human Wishes, 205.
Jonson, B.: Elegy, 74*;
Epigrams, 185*;
Epitaph, 92*;
Epitaph on Salathiel Pavey, 71*;
Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme, 123;
influence on classical school of verse, 186;
Pindaric Ode, 299 f.*;
Sad Shepherd, 225;
Sejanus, 224*.
Judas, 254.
Kawczynski, on alliteration, 117;
on origin of alexandrine, 252.
Keats: Chapman's Homer, 282;
Endymion, 209*;
Eve of St. Agnes, 105*;
Grasshopper and Cricket, 282*;
Hyperion, 242*;
Isabella, 100*;
Lamia, 8*;
Mermaid Tavern, 38*;
Ode to Psyche, 143*;
Sonnets of, 282;
Sonnet to Haydon, 22*.
Kent, A. J., on verse of Leigh Hunt, 208 f.
King Horn, 154*.
Kingsley, C.: Andromeda, 354*.
Kipling, R.: Last Chantey, 21 f.*;
Mulholland's Contract, 65*;
Song of the English, 49*;
Wolcott Balestier, 44 f.*.
Kittredge, G. L., on French decasyllabic couplet, 178.
Lachmann, on Anglo-Saxon verse, 151 f.
Landor: Children Playing in a Churchyard, 64*;
English Hexameters, 353*;
on Milton's sonnets, 276.
Lang, A.: Ballade of Primitive Man, 365 f.*;
Ballades of Blue China, 363, 365, 366;
on Pope, 202 f.
Langland: Piers Plowman, 119*.
Langtoft, P. de, Chronicle of, 82.
Lanier, S.: Ballad of Trees and the Master, 131*;
his theory of English verse, 391-393, 400;
Science of English Verse cited, 21, 49.
Larminie, W., on assonance, 115;
on quantity in English, 399;
on rime, 123.
Latin septenarius, 259;
relation to ballad metre, 264.
Latin verse, influence on octosyllabic couplet, 160f.;
influence on stanza, 63;
rime in, 124 f.;
used with Anglo-Saxon, 153.
Layamon: Brut, 118*, 127*;
verse of, 119.
Lays, four-stress couplet in, 164 f.
Le Gallienne, R., irregular verse of, burlesqued, 329 n.
Legend-Cycle, 255.
Legouis, E., on Spenser's verse, 17.
Lenten ys come, 111*.
Lentzner, on the sonnet, 268, 286, 287.
Leonine rime, 132.
Lewis, C. M., on octosyllabic couplet, 160 f.;
on sources of Chaucer's verse, 179.
Liddell, M., his theories of English verse, 394 f., 401 n., 407.
Lindsay, D.: Satyre of the Three Estates, 85*.
Little Soth Sermun, 261.
Lloyd, R., verses against blank verse, 239 n.*.
Lodge: Phyllis, 273.
Lok, sonnets of, 273.
Longfellow: Evangeline, 348*;
Golden Legend, 48*, 51*;
hexameters of, 348 f., 355;
Hiawatha, 37*, 408;
Maidenhood, 64*;
Saga of King Olaf, 30 f.*;
Sonnets on Divina Commedia, 289*.
Love in Idleness, pantoum from, 386-388*.
Lowell: Commemoration Ode, 317*;
on Gray's Progress of Poesy, 307;
on Spenserian stanza, 103.
Luick, on revival of alliterative verse, 156.
Lutel wot hit anymon, 174 f.*.
Lydgate, rime royal of, 94.
Lyly: Woman in the Moon, 219.
Lyrical verse characteristic, 395.
Lyrics, complex measures of early English, 110 f.
Macaulay, G. C., on verse of Fletcher, 227 n.
Macdonald, G.: Triolet, 383*.
Machault, 178, 358.
Malaysian verse, pantoum derived from, 386.
Malherbe, influence on heroic verse, 187.
Manning, R.: Chronicle, 82*, 254*;