102) §8. "Underwoods". I. Ben Jonson. Vol. 6. The Drama to 1642, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of a forerunner of classicism, of one who departs from Spenser, and looks forward to Dryden. The frequent choice of occasional subjects, the restriction to definite...

103) §8. Leigh Hunt s influence. IX. The Landors, Leigh Hunt, De Quincey. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and on poetry was not very great, but in neither was it negligible. In verse, he had, beyond doubt, the credit of being the first deliberately to desert the stopped...

104) §12. Essay "Of Heroick Plays". I. Dryden. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of a literary difference as a personal quarrel?—Dryden wound up the controversy by A Defence of an Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1668), prefixed to the second edition...

105) §5. Decline of Blank Verse; the Redundant Syllable and other Means of Varying the Measure. 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
...the sense up in order not to exceed the two lines. His rime is not intrusive or insistent; it neither teases nor interrupts. On the other hand, the form provides...

106) §6. "John Gilpin; On the Receipt of my Mother s Picture". IV. William Cowper. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...certain monotony in the form. The Poplar Field contains the famous and exquisite second line of the couplet The poplars are felled; farewell to the shade And the...

107) §11. Giraldus Cambrensis. X. English Scholars of Paris and Franciscans of Oxford. 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
...and died in 1190 in the course of the crusade. Gerald, meanwhile, had been appointed to write its history in Latin prose, and the archbishop s nephew, Joseph of Exeter,...

108) §1. "The Proverbs of Alfred". XI. Early Transition 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
...with such literary material as survives, a word may be said as to the submerged section of popular poetry. It is true that little can be said definitely concerning...

109) XVIII. Political and Religious Verse to the Close of the Fifteenth Century—Final Words: Bibliography. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Border, etc. Ed. Stevenson, J. 1839. Imbedded in this chronicle, under date 1244, is the English couplet. Wille Gris, Wille Gris, Thinche twat you was, and qwat you...

110) §2. Thomas Bek. XVI. Later Transition 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
...coronation of Edward III, are derived from sources not yet defined. The metre is the short rimed couplet of the French chroniclers. 12 Note 1. See Saintsbury, History...