English Verse: Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History

Chapter 62: Transcriber's Notes:

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An editor gathers representative poems and metrical examples to support inductive study of English versification, grouping specimens by topical principles and by historical development, with chronological ordering in the historical sections. Concise notes accompany each example, with secondary notes for advanced students, and occasional modernization of older texts to emphasize either historical form or enduring effect. A third section presents the editor's own discussion of disputed technical issues such as accent, quantity, and terminology, while a fourth collects critical commentary on the function of verse. The collection aims to furnish classroom-ready materials that illustrate form, metrical practice, and the continuity of English metrical development from early to modern periods.

Transcriber's Notes:

Cross references to pages within this book include links. These display in the default link colors but are underlined only on mouse over, e.g. See p. 175.

The following characters which may be unfamiliar are used in this e-text:

Þ, þ - upper and lower case thorn.
Ð, ð - upper and lower case eth.
Ȝ, ȝ - upper and lower case yogh.
‸ - caret (signifying a pause in poetry)
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Footnotes have been numbered sequentially and moved to the end of each chapter.

Minor corrections to punctuation and capitalisation have been made without note. Variant spelling, especially in Anglo-Saxon and middle English poems, is as per the original.

Corrections to typographical errors are underlined like this. Mouse over to view the original text.

List of Corrections:

P. 129: "I hope to get safely out of ..." (had "... safety ...")
P. 401: "It cannot be said, however," (Had "In ...")
P. 457: "Lotos-Eaters" (Index entry, had "Lotus-Eaters")