Chapter VII: Recapitulation or Summary View of Stages of English Prosody

I. Old English Period--II. Before or very soon after 1200: Earliest
Middle English Period--III. Middle and Later Thirteenth Century:
Second Early Middle English Period--IV. Earlier Fourteenth Century:
Central Period of Middle English--V. Later Fourteenth Century:
Crowning Period of Middle English--VI. Fifteenth and Early
Sixteenth Centuries: The Decadence of Middle English Prosody--VII.
Mid-Sixteenth Century: The Recovery of Rhythm--VIII. Late Sixteenth
Century: The Perfecting of Metre and of Poetical Diction--IX.
Early Seventeenth Century: The further Development of Lyric,
Stanza, and Blank Verse; Insurgence and Division of the Couplet--X.
Mid-Seventeenth Century: Milton--XI. The Later Seventeenth Century:
Dryden--XII. The Eighteenth Century--XIII. The Early Nineteenth
Century and the Romantic Revival--XIV. The Later Nineteenth Century
220

BOOK III

HISTORICAL SURVEY OF VIEWS ON PROSODY

CHAPTER I

BEFORE 1700

Dearth of early prosodic studies--Gascoigne--His remark on feet--
Spenser and Harvey--Stanyhurst--Webbe--King James VI.-- Pattenham
(?)--Campion and Daniel--Ben Jonson, Drayton, Beaumont--Joshua
Poole and "J. D."--Milton--Dryden-- Woodford--Comparative
barrenness of the whole 233

CHAPTER II

FROM BYSSHE TO GUEST

Bysshe's _Art of Poetry_--Its importance--Minor prosodists of
the mid-eighteenth century--Dr. Johnson--Shenstone--Sheridan--
John Mason--Mitford--Joshua Steele--Historical and Romantic
prosody--Gray--Taylor and Sayers--Southey: his importance
--Wordsworth--Coleridge--_Christabel_, its theory and its
practice--Prosodists from 1800 to 1850--Guest 242

CHAPTER III

LATER NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROSODISTS

Discussions on the _Evangeline_ hexameter--Mid-century prosodists
--Those about 1870--and since--Summary 256

BOOK IV

AUXILIARY APPARATUS