2) §1. The revolution in English verse. III. Writers of the Couplet. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...smoothness of rhythm and terseness of language were indispensable conditions of poetry. The self-contained couplet became the universal medium to which these tests...

3) §2. Sir John Beaumont. III. Writers of the Couplet. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Sir John Beaumont, in a set of couplets addressed to James I, lamented the prevailing formlessness of English poetry, demanding, in place of halting feet and defective...

4) §1. Old English Verse. XVIII. The Prosody of Old and Middle English. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...which is found in the poetry of other early Teutonic and Scandinavian languages. This form may be specified, either as a pretty long line rigidly divided into two...

5) §11. Cowley s influence. III. Writers of the Couplet. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of Cowley was small in volume. In 1643, he had written a bitter, but able, satire in couplets on puritanism, called The Puritan and the Papist. His first published...

6) §10. His productions in Prose: "Essays," and "Dialogues of the Dead". VI. Lesser Verse Writers. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of my Education only the Amusement of it . Here, in a nutshell, we have the history both of his poetry and, more especially, that of his versification. The metres...

7) §3. George Sandys. III. Writers of the Couplet. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...in no small degree, the master, of George Sandys, who has some importance in the history of the couplet. Sandys, born on 2 March, 1577/8, was the youngest son of...

8) §8. "The Mistress". III. Writers of the Couplet. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...was printed in 1679. The rest he divided into four parts, Miscellanies, The Mistress, Pindarique Odes and Davideis, of each of which he gave some explanation in his...

9) §12. Dryden and the Heroic Couplet. IX. The Prosody of the Seventeenth Century. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...s attachment to the couplet, the pure couplet and nothing but the couplet; and his own form of it was much affected by precedent poetry, thereby, as it were, gearing...

10) §12. Sir William D Avenant; "Gondibert". III. Writers of the Couplet. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...by a long letter from the author to Hobbes, who had read the work as it advanced, and by a complimentary answer from Hobbes himself. Gondibert was never completed....