22) §14. Researches in the British Museum and tour in Yorkshire and Derbyshire; Gray appointed Professor of Modern History. VI. Gray. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...aye, eschew, etc. And he objects to Beattie s use of alliteration: if he had confined himself to censuring one line in the part of the poem which was sent him The...

23) §6. Alexander Scott. VI. Sir David Lyndsay. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...the old Scottish makaris. Besides utilising several of Dunbar s staves he had recourse to a variety of earlier staves in rime couée; and in the use of these medieval...

24) §1. Sources and Metre of "Pearl". XV. "Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawayne". 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
...the first line of the next stanza. Finally, the last line of the poem is almost identical with the first, and rounds off the whole. The alliteration is not slavishly...

25) §12. His Style. V. Bryant and the Minor Poets. 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
...readers seems characteristically Bryant s blank verse is really the total impression of both materials and manner, manner itself including diction as well as metrics....

26) §11. Uncertain authors in "Tottel s Miscellany". 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
...of a passage of Ovid, the letter of Penelope to Ulysses. As regards the metres, poulter s measure is the most prominent; decasyllables and eights are common, and...

27) §9. His Allegories. X. The Scottish Chaucerians. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...the popular poetry which Chaucer parodied and undid;yet the association is remote. For it is essentially a literary exercise, perhaps a burlesque pastiche to satisfy...

28) §5. Aldhelm and his School. V. Latin Writings in England to the Time of Alfred. 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
...incurred by those who are out of communion with the church of Peter, and begs him to use his influence in favour of union. The style and vocabulary of this letter...

29) §9. "Golagros and Gawane". V. The Earliest Scottish Literature. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...and five stanzas. Of its date, nothing can be said definitely; for, without several manuscripts, we can know nothing of tradition of the text. Its forms are more...

30) §6. "Morte Arthure". V. The Earliest Scottish Literature. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...passes rapidly from one scene to another of a different kind. On the battle follows the siege of Metz; on the siege, a single combat between Gawain and Sir Priamus,...