English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History
Chapter 6
THE PLACE AND FUNCTION OF THE METRICAL ELEMENT IN POETRY 413 Aristotle 413 Sir Philip Sidney 416 Samuel Johnson 417 Wordsworth 417 Coleridge 420 Shelley 422 William Hazlitt 423 Leigh Hunt 425 Theodore Watts 426 Edmund Gurney 427 W. J. Courthope 429 E. C. Stedman 432 F. B. Gummere 433
APPENDIX
TABLE ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF THE HEROIC COUPLET 437