Chapter 24

For a discussion of narrative verse in general, see Gummere's _Poetics_ and _Oldest English Epic_, Hart's _Epic and Ballad_, Council's _Study of Poetry_, and Matthew Arnold's essay "On Translating Homer."

For the further study of ballads, note G. L. Kittredge's one volume edition of Child's _English and Scottish Popular Ballads_, Gummere's _Popular Ballad_, G. H. Stempel's _Book of Ballads_, J. A. Lomax's _Cowboy Songs and other Frontier Ballads_, and Hart's summary of Child's views in _Pub. Mod. Lang. Ass._, vol. 21, 1906. The _Oxford Book of English Verse_, Nos. 367-389, gives excellent specimens.

All handbooks on _Poetics_ discuss the Ode. Gosse's _English Odes_ and William Sharp's _Great Odes_ are good collections.

For the sonnet, note Corson's chapter in his _Primer of English Verse_, and the Introduction to Miss Lockwood's collection. There are other well-known collections by Leigh Hunt, Hall Caine and William Sharp. Special articles on the sonnet are noted in Poole's _Index_.

The dramatic monologue is well discussed by Claude Howard, _The Dramatic Monologue_, and by S. S. Curry, _The Dramatic Monologue in Tennyson and Browning_.