Plot, 154, 158, 162
Plot-diagrams, 163, 165, 169
Plutarch, 212

Poe, 8, 35, 48, 52, 60, 114, 143,
151

Poetic Principle, The, 114
Poetic Prose, 106, 113
Poetry and life, 117

Poetry, nature of, 104-110, 112,
214

subjects of, 106, 107
Polysyllables, 76-7
Polysyllabic rhyme, 45
Pool of Siloam, the, 142

Pope, 6, 7, 43, 52, 53, 64, 72,
106, 114, 133, 140, 193, 223
Poppy, The, Francis Thomp-
son's, 95

Portia, 163, 175

Poses in literature, 63, 194
Poyser, Mrs., 152

Princess, The, 134

Prometheus Unbound, 67
Proper names, 79-84, 101
Proportion, 135-52, 156
Prose, nature of, 93-106, 113
Prose, poetic, 106, 113
Prose-rhythm, 23-4, 106, 217,

221

Prose and verse, 106, 111, 112,
214, 223

Prose Ballads, Daudet's, 18
Prothalamion, 49

Proverbs, Book of, 71

Psalms, Book of, 19, 40, 41, 53

Puckle, James, 60

Purchas, Samuel, 105

૨

Quiller-Couch, Sir A. T., 89, 107
Quilp, 144, 174

R

r, the letter, 94
Rabelais, 144
Racial personality, 189
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 154
Raven, The, 48

Raymond, G. L., 32, 71, 99
Reade, Charles, 13, 18, 137
Reader's part not passive, 2, 157
Realism, 107, 161, 182, 202
Recurrence, 26, 35, 53, 142, 214.
221

Recurrence, Change in, 170-1
Refrain, 48

Regularity of rhythm, 140
Rejected Addresses, 83
Relative values, 148
Rembrandt, 11-12, 155
Remus, Uncle, 67, 69
Renaissance, 190

Repetition, 35-53, 116, 146
of vowels, 38-39
of words, 47, 116
Rereading, 199
Restraint, 143, 212
Reticence, 143, 205
Revolt, spirit of, 190
Rhetoric, 23, 25

Rhythm, 20-34, 106, 116, 125,
140, 176, 195, 217, 221
in prose, 23-25, 106, 217, 224
in verse, 24-32, 106
Rhythmic changes, 28-29
Richardson, Samuel, 219
Rigaud, Monsieur, 144
Rhyme-pattern, 43-4, 120
Rhymes, alternate, 43
end, 42-3, 52-3, 116
feminine, 45
head, 36, 116
masculine, 45
polysyllabic, 45
selection of, 44
ugly, 44-5

Rhyming couplet, the, 42
Rise of the Dutch Republic,
The, 173

Robin Goodfellow, 65
Robin Hood, 124, 127

Sandford, Egbert, 91
Santayana, George, 98
Santa, Tomàs, 204, 205
Sartor Resartus, 71, 182
Satan, 77, 107, 216
Satire, 68, 144, 145
Savonarola, 18

Sawyer, Tom, 152

Scholar Gipsy, The, 117
Schoolmen, the, 190
Schubert, 155

Scott, 22, 28, 32, 44, 92, 100,
114, 125, 131, 136, 154, 174,
182, 183, 213, 223

Scott, Life of, Lockhart's, 9, 133
Scrooge, 84

Selection, 138, 143, 159
Self-revelation

177-80

in

Senior, Duke, 167

literature,

Sentence-length, 137, 151
Sesame and Lilies, 6, 98
Setting, 153-175
Seventeenth-century literature,
190

Shakespeare, 33, 36, 39, 59, 71,
76, 87, 99, 114, 115, 139,
154, 172, 183, 190, 191, 203,
206, 213, 220

Sharp, Becky, 175
Shaw, G. B., 126, 190-1
Shelley, 6, 9, 18, 27, n., 47, 66,

68, 72, 75, 78, 84, 90, 115,
133, 134, 136, 170, 178, 213,
215
Shelley, Essay on, Thompson's,

70

Shepherd's Calendar, The, 43,

168

Shirley, James, 100
Short line, 89, 91, 98
sentence, 137
story, 138
Shylock, 84

Sibilants, 92, 96

Sidney, Sir Philip, 153
Sigurd the Volsung, 87
Siloam, the Pool of, 142
Simile, 50-9
Simon Lee, 157
Simplicity, 141

Sincerity, 192, 193

"Skipping, the art of," 213
Skylark, poems on the, 27, 90,
182

Smith, James and Horace, 83
Smith, Nowell, 108

Sohrab and Rustum, 173
Somervell, David, 209, 212
Songs before Sunrise, 38
Songs of Innocence, 126
Sonnet, the, 61, 112, 120, 217
Sonorous line, 82, 86-7, 98, 100
Sordello, 213

Sound-writing, 91-99
Southey, 105, 115

Spain, The Cities of, 204
Speech, beauty of, 21
Speech, figures of, 54-73
Speech-rhythm, 21-25

Speech on American Taxation,

49

Tale of Two Cities, A, 18
Talisman, The, 18, 71
Tapley, Mark, 57, 79
Tarrypin, Brer, 69
Taste, literary, 3
Tate and Brady, 42
Taylor, Jeremy, 82, 183
Technique, literary, 5
Tempest, The, 172, 175
Tennyson, 18, 29, 32, 44, 47,

66, 77, 87, 90, 92, 93, 96,
98, 100, 122, 131, 134, 142,
168, 184, 194, 212, 215, 217,
219, 220, 223

Terminal stress, 26
Thackeray, 79, 101, 173, 223
Thenot, 168

Thompson, Francis, 47, 60, 64,
68, 95, 98, 101

Thyrsis, 52, 80
Tigg, Montague, 79
Titania, 65

Tolerance in judgment, 201
Tolstoy, 138

Tomkinson, W. S., 6, 33
Toots, Mr., 143

Touchstone, 152, 167

Traditional literature, 187

Tramp Abroad, A, 32

Vagueness, 142

V

Vanity Fair, 173, 212
Vaughan, Richard, 58
Venice, 141

Verbal harmony, 47, 52-3
jugglery, 195

Vers-libre, 111, 190, 194
Verse, architecture of, 117
blank, 46, 107
discipline of, 106

elements of, 106, 116

forms of, 116-134, 195, 215
rhythm of, 28-34, 106
Victorians, the, 194
Villains in fiction, 163
Virgil, 77, 80

Vocabulary, 98, 149
Voltaire, 193

Vowel music, 39, 56
Vowels, long and short, 86

Wolfe, Charles, 105, 114
Woodstock, 137

Word, the inevitable, 75, 190
Word-pictures, 55
Words, economy in, 142
length of, 218
repetition of, 47

use of, 74-92, 97-99
Wordsworth, 18, 27, 39, 54, 66,

74, 86, 87, 88, 98, 100, 109,
134, 157, 180, 181, 182, 184,
192, 209, 210, 213, 221
Wrayburn, Eugene, 221
Writing, On the Art of, 107
Wyndham, George, 33, 71, 133