22) III. Writers of the Couplet: Bibliography. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...(Waller.) Cartwright, Julia (Mrs. Henry Ady). Sacharissa. 1893. Courthope, W. J. A History of English Poetry, vol. III. 1903. Fox, A. W. A Book of Bachelors. 1899....

23) §9. The Heroic Couplet in Drama. I. Dryden. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...subservient to the chief fable, yet carried along under it and helping to it ; although, in point of fact, the connection between the two was frequently very slight....

24) §7. His Love Poetry. XI. John Donne. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...runs through them; they are charged with wit; the verse, though harsh at times, has more of the couplet cadence than the satires; the phrasing is full of startling...

25) §17. Lyric Poetry. IX. The Beginnings of Verse, 1610–1808. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and a remarkable number were issued by pious friends as memorials to young poets, and hence show little except that friendship may make unreasonable demands. 44 The...

26) §3. Influence of Milton. V. Thomson and Natural Description in Poetry. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...style and the characteristic shape of his phrases. Johnson, it is true, denied the influence of Milton upon Thomson: As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of...

27) §3. The staple of English poetry. XIII. Prosody from Chaucer to Spenser. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...line. The older statements (not quite obsolete yet) that this line does not appear before Chaucer—that Chaucer introduced it—are certainly false; while the attempts...

28) §15. His Achievement. X. Michael Drayton. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and, like Wordsworth, lacked also the finer virtues of omission. Yet everything that he wrote has its loftier moments; he is often golden-mouthed, indeed, in his...

29) §6. Henry Howard, earl of Surrey. VIII. The New English Poetry. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Once or twice, Surrey runs the same pair of rimes right through his first twelve lines; but gains, on the whole, little advantage thus. Whichever plan he follows,...

30) §10. Ballads. III. Political and Ecclesiastical Satire. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of the ballad-monger, and were hawked about the country to be chanted at street-corners and in taverns. Their manner is, therefore, far more popular than that of...