32) §11. John Gay and his early literary efforts; "Rural Sports; The Shepherd s Week; The What D ye Call it; Trivia;" Gay and. 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
...another in a Westminster hall bookseller, who, in May, 1708, brought out his first experiment in verse, an indifferent poem, in blank verse, with the title Wine,...

33) X. Later Poets: Bibliography. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and The Flower and Thorn]. Boston and New York, 1881. Babie Bell, Little Violinist, and Other Verse and Prose. Boston, 1898. Book of Songs and Sonnets. Boston and...

34) §12. Lyrics. II. Byron. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...that Byron ever wrote. Intensely lyrical in spirit, the poem is, nevertheless, written in blank verse, which Byron here manipulates with a dexterity that he seems...

35) §13. Macpherson s Literary Talent. X. The Literary Influence of the Middle Ages. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...was not highly appreciated. But it is interesting as an experiment in rhythm and as an attempt to free Homer from English literary conventions. Macpherson died in...

36) Lowell, Amy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...notable for its rendering of sensuous images. Her experiments with polyphonic prose, a free-verse form that combines prose and poetry, are considered unsuccessful....

37) Arnold, Matthew. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Rustum." Poems: Second Series appeared in 1855 and was followed by Merope: A Tragedy (1858) and New Poems (1867); the latter volume included "Thyrsis," his famous...

38) §7. Rochester s Life and Character. VIII. The Court Poets. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...they scattered with a prodigal hand. If they are to be accounted artists, let it be in life not in verse. Poetry was but an episode in their multi-coloured careers;...

39) §13. Cowley s "Essays". XVI. The Essay and the Beginning of Modern English Prose. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...progress in his prose writings. In the earlier of these, the preface to the 1656 edition of his poems, his sentences are at first cumbrous and involved, and though,...

40) §1. Middle English Lyrics. XVII. 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
...and cared little for a moral ending were being translated; and indications appear that the free criticism of its rulers, which has always been a characteristic of...