A History of English Versification
A History of English Versification, published by the Clarendon Press in 1910, is the English version of the work of Jakob Schipper, professor of English philology at the University of Vienna, whose larger Englische Metrik had appeared in German in three volumes. The first book treats the line: the principles of meter, the alliterative verse of Old English and its later development, and the rise of rhymed and accentual verse in its many forms. The second book treats the stanza, from couplets and simple strophes to the Spenserian stanza, the ode, the sonnet and the fixed forms borrowed from Italian and French poetry. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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