BEST, J. R.: _Bon Rondeau_, 373*.
_Bestiary_, 118*.
_Bewick and Grahame_ (ballad), 157*.
BLAIR: _Grave_, 236 f.*.
Blank verse, 213-251;
abandoned in Restoration drama, 196-199;
early use of term, 215;
in lyrical poems, 246;
its decadence, 230, 234;
revival in 18th century, 238;
unpopular in 18th century, 204 f.
_Blow, northern wind_, 78*.
Bob-wheel, 110 n.
BÖDDEKER: _Altenglische Dichtungen_, cited, 14, 69, 78, 84, 86, 110,
111, 175.
BOLTON, T. L., on nature of rhythm, 393 n.
BOWLES, W. L.: _Sonnet_, 277*;
sonnets of, 278.
BRIGHT, J. W., on "pitch-accent," 5 f.;
theory of metrical accent, 401 n.
BROME, R., blank verse of, 230.
BRONSON, on Greek and English ode, 300;
on odes of Collins, 305.
BROWNING, E. B.: _Cowper's Grave_, 264*;
_Rhyme of the Duchess May_, 80*;
_Sonnets from the Portuguese_, 283*;
sonnets of, 284.
BROWNING, R.: _Abt Vogler_, 50*;
_Agamemnon_, 327 f.*;
blank verse of, 247-249;
_Caliban upon Setebos_, 31 f.*, 57*, 145 f.*;
_Cavalier Tunes_, 40*;
_Epistle of Karshish_, 248*;
_Fifine at the Fair_, 257 f.*;
_Flight of the Duchess_, 129*;
_Fra Lippo Lippi_, 249*;
_Guardian Angel_, 95*;
_Heretic's Tragedy_, 145*;
_In a Balcony_, 248*;
_Love among the Ruins_, 90*;
_Misconceptions_, 37*;
_One Word More_, 41*;
_Pacchiarotto_, 128 f.*;
_Paracelsus_, 8*, 59*, 145*;
_Prospice_, 29*, 50*;
_Ring and the Book_, 57*, 59*, 247*;
_Saul_, 42*;
sonnets of, 286, 287;
_Sordello_, 211*;
_Statue and the Bust_, 67*;
_Why I am a Liberal_, 287*.
BÜCHER, K.: _Labor and Rhythm_, 436 n.
BURNS: _Auld Lang Syne_, 21*;
_Birks of Aberfeldy_, 78*;
_Bonnie Doon_, 70*;
_Chevalier's Lament_, 39*;
_Cotter's Saturday Night_, 104*;
_Duncan Gray_, 79*;
_Tam O'Shanter_, 171*;
_To a Louse_, 87*.
BUTCHER, S. H., on Aristotle's view of metre, 413-416.
BUTLER: _Hudibras_, 137*, 167*.
BYRON: _Childe Harold_, 105*;
_Destruction of Sennacherib_, 39*;
_Don Juan_, 100*, 128*;
double rimes of, 128, 129;
_English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_, 206*;
_Farewell, if ever_, 97*;
_Francesca of Rimini_, 68*;
_Prisoner of Chillon_, 171*;
_She Walks in Beauty_, 92*;
_Song of Saul_, 40*;
_Stanzas for Music_, 44*;
use of _ottava rima_, 101.
CAMPION, T.: _Anacreontics_, 27*;
_Iambic Dimeter_, 334 f.*;
_Observations in the Art of English Poesie_, 335 f.;
_Trochaic Dimeter_, 335*.
CANNING: _Rovers_, 131*.
CANNING (and FRERE): _Sapphics_, 337*.
_Canzone_, influence of, on the sonnet, 267.
CAREW: _In Praise of his Mistress_, 89*.
CAREY, P.: _Triolet_, 382 f.*.
Catalexis, 22, 25;
in the ode, 319.
CATULLUS, metres of, imitated, 339.
Caudated sonnet, 276.
Celtic verse, alliteration in, 117;
assonance in, 115;
rime in, 124.
Cesura, 17-19;
in alexandrine, 253, 258;
kinds of, 19.
_Chant Royal_, 367 f.
CHAPMAN: _All Fools_, 215*;
_Hymn to Cynthia_, 343*;
_Iliad_, 262*.
CHATTERTON: _Ælla_, 79*, 107 f.*;
his variant of Spenserian stanza, 108.
CHAUCER: _Balade de bon conseyl_, 360f.*;
_Balade on Gentilesse_, 362;
_Balade to Rosemound_, 362;
_Complaint to his Empty Purse_, 362;
_Compleynt of Venus_, 362;
_Compleynte unto Pite_, 93*, 177, 178;
decasyllabic verse of, 177-179;
_Fortune_, 362;
free cesura in verse of, 17;
French lyrical forms used by, 362;
_House of Fame_, 165 f.*;
influence on form of Spenserian stanza, 103;
_Knights Tale_, 138 f.*;
_Lak of Stedfastnesse_, 362;
_Legend of Good Women_, 176* (ballade in, 362);
_Monk's Tale_, 97*;
octosyllabic couplet of, 166;
omission of opening syllable in verse of, 20;
on alliteration, 120;
_Parlement of Foules_, 369*;
perfect rime in, 121 n.;
_Prologue_, 20*, 176*;
_Proverb_, 71*;
"rime royal" introduced by, 94;
_Sir Thopas_, 84*.
_Chevy Chase_ (ballad), 70*.
Choral odes, 323-328.
Choriambus, 408.
_Cid, Poema del_, 114*.
Classical metres, imitations of, 330-357.
CLOUGH, A. H.: _Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich_, 350*;
hexameter of, 351;
his analysis of a line of blank verse, 403.
COLERIDGE: _Ancient Mariner_, 133*, 263*;
_Christabel_, 15*, 401*;
_Fancy in Nubibus_, 296*;
hexameters of, 346;
his theory of metre, 420-422;
_Hymn before Sunrise_, 241*;
_Hymn to the Earth_, 345 f.*;
_Kubla Khan_, 138*, 147*;
_Ode on the Departing Year_, 311*;
on sonnet of White, 281;
on sonnets of Bowles, 278;
sonnets of, 296;
_To a Friend_, 75*.
COLLINS: _Ode to Evening_, 246;
_Ode to Liberty_, 170*, 303 f.*;
on verse of Skelton, 32;
_Passions_, 310*.
"Common metre," 261 f.
_Confessio Goliae_, 259*.
CONGREVE: _Discourse on Pindaric Ode_, 302 f.;
_Pindaric Ode_, 301 f.*.
Consonants, as lengthening English syllables, 396-399.
CONSTABLE: _Diana_, 273.
CORSON, on blank verse of Browning, 247 f.;
on double rime, 129 f.;
on _In Memoriam_ stanza, 76 f.;
on Mrs. Browning's sonnets, 284;
on _ottava rima_, 98, 99;
on rime, 122;
on Spenserian stanza of Keats, 105;
on variety in verse movement, 61;
on verse of Cowper, 240;
on Wordsworth's Immortality Ode, 313 f.
COTTON, C.: _Rondeau_, 372 f.*;
Virelai of, 385.
Couplet (see under Decasyllabic and Octosyllabic).
COURTHOPE, on Aristotle's view of metre, 415;
on the sonnet, 268, 272;
on verse-form in poetry, 429-432;
on verse of Pope, 201;
on verse of Surrey, 216.
COWLEY, Congreve on the odes of, 303;
introduction of irregular ode by, 308;
_Resurrection_, 307 f.*;
_Solitude_, 88*.
Cowleyan ode, 298, 307-323.
COWPER: _Alexander Selkirk_, 34*;
anapests of, 35;
blank verse of, 240 f.;
_John Gilpin_, 264;
_My Mary_, 79*;
on Milton's verse, 58 f.;
_Sonnet to Mrs. Unwin_, 278*;
_Table Talk_, 205*;
_Task_, 239 f.*.
CRABBE: _Borough_, 206f.*.
CRASHAW: _Wishes for the Supposed Mistress_, 64*.
_Creation and Fall_ (Mystery Play), 95*.
Cretic, 31.
"Crown of Sonnets," 275.
CYNEWULF: _Crist_, 116*;
_Elene_, rime in, 126 n.;
Riddle of (strophic), 63 n.
Dactyl, 24.
Dactylic verse, two-stress, 30;
three-stress, 37;
four-stress, 40;
five-stress, 42;
six-stress, 44;
seven-stress, 46;
eight-stress, 48.
DANIEL: _Care-charmer Sleep_, 291 f.*;
_Civil War_, 99*;
_Defence of Rime_, 33 n.;
_Delia_, 273, 292.
DANTE, _terza rima_ of, 65, 67-69.
DAVENANT: _Gondibert_, 71*, 72.
DAVIES, Sir J.: _Nosce Teipsum_, 73.
Decasyllabic couplet, 174-213;
Chaucer's, 177;
in Elizabethan age, 190;
in the drama, 196-199;
of the romantic poets, 209f., 212;
Saintsbury on qualities of, 194f.
_De Muliere Samaritana_, 253*.
DENHAM: _Against Love_, 63*;
_Cooper's Hill_, 191f.*.
_Deo Gracias_, 96*.
_Deor's Lament_, 62n.
DE QUINCEY, on Milton's verse, 233n.
"Descending rhythm," 25.