A History of English Rhythms

HISTORY OF ENGLISH RHYTHMS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

It is said, by such as professe the mathematicall sciences, that all things stand by proportion, and that without it nothing could stand to be good or beautiful. Puttenham, Arte of English Poesie, Lib. ii. c. 1.

J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET.

ENGLISH RHYTHMS,

BY EDWIN GUEST Esq. M.A.

FELLOW OF CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

BOOK III.

CHAP. I. Systems, natural and artificial, 1.

Systems followed in
the arrangement of English poetry, 2. A rhythmical ar-
rangement, why difficult, 3. The subject, how arranged in
the present book, ib.

CHAP. II. Anglo-Saxon literature, 4. German scholars, 5. The

"new Saxonists," 8. Modern editions of Anglo-Saxon MSS,

their accentuation, 9-their composition and resolution of

words, 11-their versification, 13-their punctuation, 14.

Certain Anglo-Saxon idioms, 17. Some notice of Cadmon,

23. Cædmon's rhythms 26. Cædmon's longer rhythms,

38. Alfred's rhythms, 51. The Brunanburgh war-song,

61. Our early lyrical rhythms, 70. The Confessor's death-

song, 71. The Grave, 75. The Traveller's or Gleeman's

song, 77.

Conybeare's rhiming poem, 96.

CHAP. III. Sectional metre, 94.