... Gonne Maud Thoreau Henry David Wellesley Dorothy “Wild Swans at Coole The” Yeats Gregory Lady Augusta Parrish Stephen Hyde Lees Georgie Keats John Ash John Ashbery John Rich Adrienne Stevens Wallace Samuel Beckett W. B. Yeats Celtic Twilight stanza repetition rhyme ballad phonemics...

...This chapter reads Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s infamously bad rhymes and her blank verse as related stylistic responses to her study of Henry Hallam’s Introduction to the Literature of Europe (1837–39), the first large-scale work of general literary history in English. Examining Barrett Browning’s...

...This chapter investigates the shared historiographies of rhyme and love, and their significance for William Morris’s Pre-Raphaelite poetry. It follows the historiographic concept of the romantic through the work of Thomas Warton, Germaine de Staël, August Schlegel, G. W. F. Hegel, and Walter Pater...

... Metrical Law,” and his late elegiac odes, the chapter explores the historiographic aspects of Patmore’s prosodic thought. Patmore’s prosody intervenes in the conversations about rhyme and the nature of the ode that he began to engage in his In Memoriam review. Was the ode, as Edmund Gosse believed...

...While diagrammatic distinctiones rely upon linguistic features to represent conceptual divisions, Chapter 4 demonstrates how they began to be applied as a technique to highlight structures of rhyming verses, addressing challenges of visualizing sound and then proceed to examine horizontal tree...

...This book shows how the nineteenth-century search for the origin of rhyme shaped the theory and practice of poetry. For Victorians, rhyme was not (as it was for the New Critics, and as it still is for us) a mere technique or ahistorical form. Instead, it carried vivid historical fantasies derived...

... View of the Literature of the South of Europe, 1813) to conceptualize rhyme as an instrument of feeling, and this borrowed historiography is the key intertext for Hallam’s important review of Tennyson’s early poetry. Through its examination of Arthur Hallam’s poetic theory and the philosophical...

... rhymes of “Tears, Idle Tears” (1847) and In Memoriam (1850) represent a more mature if less transparently historical development of affective form. By turning general literary history and its genetic thinking into an interpretive and creative method, Hallam and Tennyson devise a Victorian historiographic...

... from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romantic ballads to the contemporary avant-garde, this book explores such subjects as the translatability of lyric sound, the historical and cultural roles of rhyme, the role of sound repetition...