(The following list contains almost everything with which any student, who is not making the subject one of exhaustive and practically original research, need make himself acquainted; while it will carry him pretty far even in that direction. Further information will be found in the works of Mr. T. S. Omond, English Metrists (Tunbridge Wells, 1903), and English Metrists of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Oxford and London, 1907), as well as in the present writer's larger History of English Prosody. Several of the works hereinafter catalogued will be found collected in Professor Gregory Smith's Elizabethan Critical Essays (2 vols., Oxford, 1904), and extracts from not a very few of them in the present writer's Loci Critici (Boston, U.S.A., and London, 1903).)

Abbott, E. A. Shakesperian Grammar (London, 1869), and (with J. R. Seeley) English Lessons for English People (London, 1871). Reissued frequently.

Alden, R. M. English Verse (New York, 1904), and Introduction to Poetry (New York, 1909).

[Blake, J. W.] Accent and Rhythm explained by the Law of Monopressures (Edinburgh, 1888).

Brewer, R. F. Manual of English Poetry (London, 1869). Reissued and enlarged later as Orthometry (London, 1893).

Bridges, R. S. Milton's Prosody (Oxford, 1889). Frequently reissued, especially in 1901, with important additions on stress-prosody.

Bysshe, Edward. The Art of English Poetry (London, 1702). Frequently reprinted throughout the eighteenth century, the best edition being that of 1708.

Calverley, C. S. On Metrical Translation, originally in a magazine. Reprinted in Works (London, 1901).

Campion, Thomas. Observations in the Art of English Poetry (London, 1602). Reprinted in Gregory Smith's Elizabethan Essays, in Bullen's Works of Campion (London, 1889), and in the Oxford edition of these Works (1910).

Cayley, C. B. Remarks and Experiments on English Hexameters (Transactions of Philological Society, Berlin, 1861), and Preface to translation of Æschylus's Prometheus Bound (London, 1867).

Coleridge, S. T. Preface to Christabel. Almost any edition of Poems.

Conway, Gilbert. A Treatise of Versification (London, 1878).

Crowe, William. A Treatise on English Versification (Oxford, 1827).

Daniel, Samuel. A Defence of Rhyme (London, 1603?-1607). In Gregory Smith, and in all reprints of Daniel's Works, as well as among the Poems in Chalmers's Poets.

Dryden, John. No single concentrated treatment, but interesting glances, some of which will be found in Loci Critici (v. sup.), and all of which can be easily traced in Professor Ker's edition of the Critical Essays (2 vols., Oxford, 1900).

Gascoigne, George. Certain Notes of Instruction in English Verse (London, 1575). Reprinted in Gregory Smith, in Arber's English reprints (London, 1868), etc.

Goldsmith, Oliver. Essay on Versification (British Magazine, London, 1763). Reprinted in all editions of his Works as "Miscellaneous Essays, No. 18."

Guest, Edwin. History of English Rhythms (2 vols., London, 1838). Reprinted and edited in one vol. by Professor Skeat (London, 1882).

Hodgson, Shadworth. "English Verse" in Outcast Essays, etc. (London, 1881).

Hood, T. (the younger). The Rules of Rhyme (London, 1869).

Jenkin, Fleeming. Papers on Metre in Saturday Review for 1883. Reprinted in Memoir and Remains (Edinburgh, 1887).

Johnson, Samuel. Papers chiefly in The Rambler (London, 1750). To be found partly in Loci Critici, and completely in all editions of the Rambler itself. A few remarks on prosody are in the "Grammar" accompanying the Dictionary, and many scattered over the Lives of the Poets.

Ker, W. P.—Analogies between English and Spanish Verse (Philological Society's Transactions, London, 1899).

King James the First (Sixth of Scotland). Rewlis and Cautelis. [Full title longer.] (Edinburgh, 1595.) Reprinted by Arber (London, 1869), and in Gregory Smith.

Lewis, C. M. The Principles of English Verse (New York and London, 1906).

Liddell, Mark H. Introduction to the Scientific Study of English Poetry (New York, 1902).

Mason, John. An Essay on the Power of Numbers and the Principle of Harmony in Poetical Compositions (London, 1749).

Masson, David. Essay on Milton's Versification in edition of Milton's Works (London, 1890), vol. iii. pp. 107 sq.

Mayor, J. B. Chapters on English Metre (Cambridge, 1886). A Handbook of English Metre (Cambridge, 1904).

Mitford, William. Essay on the Harmony of Language (London, 1774). Reissued, with large alterations and additions, as An Enquiry into the Principles of Harmony in Language (London, 1804).

Omond, T. S. A Study of Metre (London, 1903).

Patmore, Coventry. "English Metrical Criticism," originally in North British Review for 1875. Reprinted with Amelia (London, 1878), and since in various places of his Poems and Works.

Poe, E. A. The Rationale of Verse, originally a magazine essay, 1848. In the various editions of his Works (ed. Ingram, 4 vols.; Edinburgh, 1875, vol. iii. pp. 219-265).

[Puttenham, George?] The Art of English Poesie (London, 1581). Reprinted by Arber (Birmingham, 1869), and in Gregory Smith.

Ruskin, John. Elements of English Prosody (Orpington, 1880).

Schipper, J. Englische Metrik (3 vols., Bonn, 1882-89). History of English Versification (Oxford, 1910).

Shenstone, William. Essays in Works (3 vols., London, 1764-69). The chief of the few, but very important, prosodic remarks will be found in Loci Critici.

Skeat, W. W. Section on Chaucer's Prosody in Works of Chaucer, vol. vi. (Oxford, 1894). Rehandled in paper on the Scansion of English Poetry (Philological Society's Transactions for 1895-98).

Southey, Robert. Preface of Vision of Judgment (London, 1820). A few important remarks (see text) in Letters and Correspondence.

Spedding, James. Review in Fraser's Magazine, 1861. Reprinted in Reviews and Discussions (London, 1879).

Spenser, Edmund. Correspondence with Gabriel Harvey. In full editions of Works, or in Gregory Smith.

Steele, Joshua. Prosodia Rationalis (London, 1779).

Stone, W. J. On the Use of Classical Metres in English (Oxford, 1898). Reprinted, without specimens, together with Mr. Bridges' Prosody of Milton (Oxford, 1901).

Symonds, J. A. Blank Verse (London, 1895).

Thelwall, John. Illustrations of English Rhythmus (London, 1812).

Verrier, M. Essai sur la mÉtrique anglaise (3 vols., Paris, 1909).

Wadham, E. English Versification (London, 1869).

Webbe, William. A Discourse of English Poetry (London, 1586). Reprinted by Arber (London, 1870) and in Gregory Smith.