 | - Book Title: Historical Manual of English Prosody
- Author: George Saintsbury
- ISBN: MW0012332421
- Publisher: Macmillan
- Year Published: 1910
- Our Price: £33.00 GBP ($49.83 USD)
- Description: Macmillan & Co 1910, first edition : blue cloth hardcover: gilt lettering to spine: no dust jacket: 340 pages plus index. Synopsis: Described by the author as ' more compressed ' than his two previous larger works on English Prosody, the contents include the following:- Book 1: Introductory and Dogmatic ( a.Introductory. b.Systems of English prosody - the accentual or stress. c.Systems of English prosody - the syllabic. d.Systems of English prosody - the foot. e.Rules of the foot system. f.Continuous illustration of English scansion according to the foot system.) Book 2: Historical Sketch of English Prosody. a.From the origins to Chaucer - the constitution of English verse. b.From Chaucer to Spencer -- disorganisation and reconstruction. c.From Shakespeare to Milton - the close of the formative period. d. Halt and retrospect - continuation of the heroic verse and its companions from Dryden to Crabbe. e.The romantic revival -- its precursors and first great stage. f.The last stage - Tennyson to Swinburne. g.Recapitulation of summary view of stages of English prosody.) Book 3:Historical Survey of Views on Prosody. (a.Before 1700. b.From Bysshe to Guest. c. Later 19th-century prosodists.) Book 4: Auxiliary Apparatus (a.Glossary. b.Reasoned list of poets with special regards to their prosodic quality and influence. c.Origins of lines and stanzas. d. Bibliography. Index.) Condition: some marks to cover: corners bumped: endpapers discoloured: lower corner of title page missing: pencilled ownership inscriptions: contents clean: overall firm and acceptable.
- Condition: Collectable- Acceptable
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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