A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day Volume 3

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. ... CHAPTER I THE PRiE-RAPHAELITE SCHOOL Distribution and general, and particular --D. G. Rossetti--"The Blessed Damozel"--Various poems --His sonnets and the later sonnet generally--William his prosodic importance--The verse in the Oxford and Cam- bridge Magazine--The Defence of Guenevere--The Life and Death of Jason--Morris's heroics--The Earthly Paradise--Its octosyllabics--Love is Enough--Sigurd the Volsung--Poems by the Way--Mr. his blank verse postponed -- Atalanta in Calydon -- Considerations on it -- Chastelard-- Poems and Ballads -- Laus Veneris--Various forms -- The "Dolores " metre--Other A Song of Italy and Songs before Sunrise--The second Poems and Ballads--" At a Month's End "--The later volumes--The blank verse--The couplets of Tristram--The long metres--Miss Goblin Market --The title poem--Her later books--Sonnets and general quality--Canon Dixon--Mano and its metre--O' The Epic of Women--The "Barcarolle "--Lays of France-- Songsof a Worker--Music and Moonlight--James Thomson II. THERE may be some difference of opinion on the question Distribution , and nomenclature. whether the English poetry of the last third of theand nineteenth century can be separated from that of the middle third (using these fractional terms with literary laxity, and not with mathematical correctness) even as much as this middle division can be separated from the first . Not merely is the productive existence of Tennyson and Browning, for much more than half of it, a serious impediment to any such segregation; but it is impossible to say that their younger contemporaries differ from them, even in the not very strongly marked way in which they differ from their own elders....