A Short History of English Versification, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students

G. Allen, Limited, 1911 - 396 sider

Introduction	1

Division of English Prosody	7

Section I	14

Metrical Unity of the Long Line	20

Lachmann	22

Criticism of the TwoBeat Theory	29

Outline of Sievers System	35

Type	42

129	156

On God Ureisun	161

Last alliterative Verses in early	163

Stanza Formation	168

Rime of Unstressed and weakly Stressed Syllables	171

Impure Rime	173

Assonance 143 Inexact Rime	175

Identical Rime 145	176

The correct Division of Sievers Types	49

Fuhr	55

Law stating when a Disyllabic Word with a short rootsyllable at the end of a verse may have two Beats	61

The Application of these Laws	63

Compatibility of the FourBeat Theory with Sievers Types	64

Derivation from a Common IndoGermanic origi nal Verse	65

Kögel	68

Trautmann	69

Trautmanns 16+12 Verseforms 59 Criticism of Trautmanns System	71

Martin	73

Neither two nor four Beats but four Members	74

Division of Alliterative Verses into 90 Subspecies according to their Composition 63 Outline of the FourMember Theory	75

49	77

Feminine Masculine and Gliding Verseending 65 A Verses with Feminine Ending	81

Types 110 Sievers A¹	83

Types 1120 Sievers	84

Types 2128 Sievers A³	85

Types 29 30 A4	87

Types 3140 Sievers	89

Types 4150 Sievers D²	90

Types 49 50	91

Types 5160 Sievers	92

C Verses with Gliding Ending	93

Types 6170 Sievers	94

Types 7188 Sievers D¹ 78 Types 89 90 Sievers A²k	96

61	99

64	102

The Relation of the first HalfLine to the Second	103

84	106

85	107

86	109

88	110

91	113

92	114

Double Alliteration	115

94	117

95	118

96	119

97	121

100	124

101	127

Lagamons Brut	133

Lagamons Verse has four Members	139

The ME Short Rimed Couplet	147

The Latin Septenary	153

Different kinds of Identical Rime	177

Identical Rime cont	179

Double Rime	180

Position of the Rime	183

b The Central ME Period 12501370	184

The Short Rimed Couplet	185

Septenaries in Rimed Couplets	187

Verses with one two and three Bars	188

The Alexandrine	189

The ME Alliterative Verse 181	192

b Rosenthal Trautmann etc Kuhnke Bunzen	195

Rhythmical Structure of ME Alliterative Verse	199

Alliteration in ME 161 Stanza Structure	205

The Unity of the Stanza	206

Concatenatio	207

Refrain 165 Classification	208

Unrimed Stanzas	211

The Rimed Couplet	212

Fourline Stanza aabb 169 aaaa	214

Eightline Stanza abababab	217

Thirteenline Stanza ababababydddc	223

Twelveline Tailrime Stanza	229

Sir Thopas	236

Origin of Heroic Verse	246

Caesura in Heroic Verse	252

Chaucers Eightline Stanza	258

Stanza Construction	265

Influence of Linguistic Alterations on the Regu	267

Quantity	277

Rime and Alliteration	284

Fourbar and Fourbeat Verses	297

Blank Verse	303

201 Development of Prosody in	315

Blank Verse in XVIII and XIX Centuries	321

Rimed Couplets and Triplets	339

170	343

Common Metre	345

abab	347

The Tailrime Stanza	351

205	388

207	389

208	390

214	393

215	394

Titel	A Short History of English Versification, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: A Handbook for Teachers and Students
Forfatter	Max Kaluza
oversat af	Arthur Cyril Dunstan
Udgiver	G. Allen, Limited, 1911
Oprindeligt fra	Princeton University
Digitaliseret	3. mar 2009
Længde	396 sider

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