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Historical Manual of English Prosody

by George Saintsbury

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Book I — Introductory and Dogmatic
  3. 3Chapter II — Systems of English Prosody — The Accentual or Stress
  4. 4Chapter III — Systems of English Prosody — The Syllabic
  5. 5Chapter IV — Systems of English Prosody — The Foot
  6. 6Chapter V — Rules of the Foot System
  7. 7Chapter VI — Continuous Illustrations of English Scansion According…
  8. 8Book II — Historical Sketch of English Prosody
  9. 9Chapter II — From Chaucer to Spenser — Disorganisation and Reconstr…
  10. 10Chapter III — From Shakespeare to Milton — The Close of the Formati…
  11. 11Chapter IV — Halt and Retrospect — Continuation on Heroic Verse and…
  12. 12Chapter V — The Romantic Revival — Its Precursors and First Great S…
  13. 13Chapter VI — The Last Stage — Tennyson to Swinburne
  14. 14Chapter VII — Recapitulation or Summary View of Stages of English P…
  15. 15Book III — Historical Survey of Views on Prosody
  16. 16Chapter II — From Bysshe to Guest
  17. 17Chapter III — Later Nineteenth-Century Prosodists
  18. 18Book IV — Auxiliary Apparatus
  19. 19Chapter II — Reasoned List of Poets With Special Regard to Their Pr…
  20. 20Chapter III — Origins of Lines and Stanzas
  21. 21Chapter IV — Bibliography

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