Abstract

1. Introduction 2. Antiquarian a-priorism 3. Logical a-priorism 4. Aesthetic intuitivism 5. Natural or a-posteriori system 6. Metrical metamorphosis 7. Two recent metrical systems 8. Naming and classification of metres. Illustrations from Tenyson 9. Naming and classification of metres. Illustrations from the hymn-book 10. Blank verse of Surrey and Marlowe 11. Shakespeare's blank verse. Macbeth 12. Shakespeare's blank verse. Hamlet 13. Modern blank verse. Tennyson and Browning 14. Shelley's metre 15. The English hexameter Appendix A. Mr H. Nicol and Prof. Paul Meyer on the Old French decasyllabic metre. Abstract of Zarncke's essay on the 5-foot iambus of Lessing and Schiller Index.

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