Chapters on English Metre (Paperback)

1. Introduction; 2. Antiquarian a-priorism; 3. Logical a-priorism; 4. Aesthetic intuitivism; 5. Natural or a-posteriori system; 6. Metrical metamorphosis; 7. Two recent metrical systems; 8. Naming and classification of metres. Illustrations from Tenyson; 9. Naming and classification of metres. Illustrations from the hymn-book; 10. Blank verse of Surrey and Marlowe; 11. Shakespeare's blank verse. Macbeth; 12. Shakespeare's blank verse. Hamlet; 13. Modern blank verse. Tennyson and Browning; 14. Shelley's metre; 15. The English hexameter; Appendix A. Mr H. Nicol and Prof. Paul Meyer on the Old French decasyllabic metre. Abstract of Zarncke's essay on the 5-foot iambus of Lessing and Schiller; Index.