A History of English Versification

CHAPTER X

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OTHER ITALIAN AND FRENCH POETICAL FORMS OF A FIXED CHARACTER

316-7. The madrigal 380 318-9. The terza-rima 381 320-1. The sextain 383 322. The virelay 385 323. The roundel 385 324. The rondeau 387 325. The triolet 388 326. The villanelle 388 327. The ballade 389 328. The Chant Royal 390

LIST OF EDITIONS REFERRED TO

The quotations of Old English poetry are taken from Grein-Wülker, _Bibliothek der Angelsächsischen Poesie_, Strassburg, 1883-94. For the Middle English poets the editions used have been specified in the text. Most of the poets of the Modern English period down to the eighteenth century are quoted from the collection of R. Anderson, _The Works of the British Poets_, Edinburgh, 1795 (15 vols.), which is cited (under the title _Poets_) by volume and page. The remaining Modern English poets are quoted (except when some other edition is specified) from the editions mentioned in the following list.

=Arnold=, Matthew. _Poetical Works_, London, Macmillan & Co., 1890. 8vo.

=Beaumont=, Francis, and =Fletcher=, John. _Dramatick Works_, London, 1778. 10 vols. 8vo.

=Bowles=, W. L. _Sonnets and other Poems_. London, 1802-3. 2 vols. 8vo.

=Browning=, Elizabeth Barrett. _Poetical Works_. London, Chapman & Hall, 1866. 5 vols. 8vo.

=Browning=, Robert. _Poetical Works_. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1868. 6 vols. 8vo.

=Bulwer Lytton=, Sir E. (afterwards Lord Lytton). _The Lost Tales of Miletus_. London, John Murray, 1866. 8vo.

=Burns=, Robert. _Complete Works_, ed. Alexander Smith. London, Macmillan & Co., 1870. (Globe Edition.)

=Byron=, Lord. _Poetical Works_. London, H. Frowde, 1896. 8vo. (Oxford Edition.)

=Campbell=, Thomas. _Poetical Works_, ed. W.A. Hill. London, G. Bell & Sons, 1875.

=Coleridge=, Samuel Taylor. _Poems_, ed. Derwent and Sara Coleridge. London, E. Moxon & Co., 1863.

=Cowper=, William. _Poetical Works_, ed. W. Benham. London, Macmillan & Co., 1870. (Globe Edition.)

=Dryden=, John. _Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas_. London, 1701. fol.

---- ---- _Poetical Works_, ed. W. D. Christie. London, Macmillan & Co., 1870. (Globe Edition.)

=Fletcher=, John. See Beaumont.

=Goldsmith=, Oliver. _Miscellaneous Works_, ed. Prof. Masson. London, Macmillan & Co., 1871. 8vo. (Globe Edition.)

_Gorboduc_, or _Ferrex and Porrex, a Tragedy_, by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville, ed. L. Toulmin Smith. (_Englische Sprach- und Litteraturdenkmale des 16., 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts_, herausgegeben von K. Vollmöller, I.) Heilbronn, Gebr. Henninger 1883. 8vo.

=Hemans=, Felicia. _The Works of Mrs. Hemans, with a Memoir of her life by her sister_. Edinburgh, W. Blackwood & Sons, 1839. 7 vols.

=Herbert=, George. _Works_, ed. R. A. Willmott. London, G. Routledge & Co., 1854. 8vo.

=Hood=, Thomas. _Poetical Works_, ed. Thornton Hunt. London, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860. 8vo.

_Hymns, Ancient and Modern, for Use in the Services of the Church_. Revised and Enlarged Edition. London, n.d.

=Jonson=, Ben. Chiefly cited from the edition in _Poets_ iv. 532-618 (see the note prefixed to this list); less frequently (after Wilke, _Metr. Unters. zu B. J._, Halle, 1884) from the folio edition, London, 1816 (vol. i), or from the edition by Barry Cornwall, London, 1842. A few of the references are to the edition of F. Cunningham, London, J.C. Hotten, n.d. (3 vols.)

=Keats=, John. _Poetical Works_. London, F. Warne & Co. (Chandos Classics.)

=Longfellow=, Henry Wadsworth. _Poetical Works_. Edinburgh, W. P. Nimmo. 8vo. (Crown Edition.)

=Lytton.= See Bulwer Lytton.

=Marlowe=, Christopher. _Works_, ed. A. Dyce. London, 1850. 3 vols. 8vo.

---- ---- _Works_, ed. F. Cunningham. London, F. Warne & Co., 1870. 8vo.

=Massinger=, Philip. _Plays_, ed. F. Cunningham. London, F. Warne & Co., 1870. 8vo.

=Milton=, John. _Poetical Works_, ed. D. Masson. London, Macmillan & Co., 1874. 3 vols. 8vo.

---- ---- _English Poems_, ed. R.C. Browne. Second Edition. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1872. 3 vols. 8vo.

=Moore=, Thomas. _Poetical Works_. London, Longmans, 1867. 8vo.

=Morris=, William. _Love is Enough_. Third Edition. London, Ellis & White, 1873. 8vo.

=Norton=, Thomas. See _Gorboduc_.

=Percy=, Thomas. _Reliques of Ancient Poetry_. London, H. Washbourne, 1847. 3 vols. 8vo.

=Poe=, Edgar Allan. _Poetical Works_. London, Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1858. 8vo.

=Pope=, Alexander. _Poetical Works_, ed. A. W. Ward. London, Macmillan & Co., 1870. 8vo. (Globe Edition.)

=Rossetti=, Dante Gabriel. _Poems_. London, F. S. Ellis, 1870.

=Sackville=, Thomas, and Norton, Thomas. See _Gorboduc_.

=Scott=, Sir Walter. _Poetical Works_, ed. F. T. Palgrave. London, Macmillan & Co., 1869. 8vo. (Globe Edition.)

=Shakespeare=, William. _Works_, ed. W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright. London and Cambridge, Macmillan & Co., 1866. 8vo. (Globe Edition.)

=Shelley=, Percy Bysshe. _Poetical Works_. London, Chatto & Windus, 1873-1875. 3 vols. 8vo. (Golden Library.)

=Sidney=, Sir Philip. _Arcadia_. London, 1633. fol.

---- ---- _Complete Poems_, ed. A. B. Grosart. 1873. 2 vols.

=Southey=, Robert. _Poetical Works_. London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1837. 10 vols. 8vo.

=Spenser=, Edmund. _Complete Works_, ed. R. Morris. London, Macmillan & Co., 1869. 8vo. (Globe Edition.)

=Surrey=, Henry Howard, Earl of. _Poems_. London, Bell & Daldy. 8vo. (Aldine Edition.)

=Swinburne=, Algernon Charles. _Poems and Ballads_. Third Edition. London, J. C. Hotten, 1868. 8vo.

---- ---- _Poems and Ballads, Second Series_. Fourth Edition. London, Chatto & Windus, 1884. 8vo.

---- ---- _A Century of Roundels_. London, Chatto & Windus, 1883. 8vo.

---- ---- _A Midsummer Holiday and other Poems_. London, Chatto & Windus, 1884. 8vo.

=Tennyson=, Alfred. _Works_. London, Kegan Paul & Co., 1880. 8vo.

=Thackeray=, William Makepeace. _Ballads and The Rose and the Ring_. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1879. 8vo.

=Tusser=, Thomas. _Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie_, ed. W. Payne and S.J. Herrtage, English Dialect Soc., 1878.

=Wordsworth=, William. _Poetical Works_, ed. W. Knight. Edinburgh, W. Paterson, 1886. 8 vols. 8vo.

=Wyatt=, Sir Thomas. _Poetical Works_. London, Bell & Daldy. (Aldine Edition.) The references marked N. are to vol. ii. of _The Works of Surrey and Wyatt_, ed. Nott, London, 1815. 2 vols. 4to.

ERRATA

P. 268. In the references to Bulwer, _for_ p. 227 _read_ p. 147; _for_ p. 217 _read_ p. 140; _for_ p. 71 _read_ p. 45; _for_ p. 115 _read_ p. 73.

P. 315, l. 14. _For_ p. 123 _read_ p. 78.

P. 340, l. 34. _For_ p. 273 _read_ p. 72.

P. 353, l. 15. _For_ 89 _read_ 5.

P. 381, l. 12. _For_ ii. 137-40 _read Poetical Works_, London, 1891, pp. 330-32.