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- Vandenhoff and Poe, A Plain System of Elocution; Vandenhoff, The Art of Elocu-
tion as an Essential Part of Rhetoric: with instructions in gesture and an appendix of ora-
torical, poetical, and dramatic extracts. - Milton’s Prosody was first published in 1887 as part of Henry Beeching’s school
edition of Paradise Lost as “On the Elements of Blank Verse,” and it was reprinted in
1894 as a pamphlet all its own (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894), reprinted again in
1901 alongside Stone’s treatise, and printed in final revised form in 1921. - Stone had published On the Use of Classical Metres in English in 1899 and it was
reprinted alongside Bridges’s Milton’s Prosody in 1901. - Schipper, Englische Metrik. Translated into English in 1910 as A History of
English Versification, trans. Jakob Schipper, the book was reviewed alongside Saints-
bury’s three volumes. - Omond, English Metrists and A Study of Metre were revised and reprinted.
Omond was a frequent interlocutor with Mayor, Bridges, and Saintsbury. - I note the various editions of Patmore’s text to point to the way that scholars
were constantly revising and reprinting their work on meter, adding appendixes, re-
joinders, responses, and clarifications based on the proliferation of discourse on the
matter. On the proliferation of writing about meter in the nineteenth century, see the
next section of this chapter, then Taylor, Hardy’s Metres and Victorian Prosody and
Prins, “Victorian Meters.” On the rise of mass literacy, see St. Clair, The Reading Na-
tion in the Romantic Period and Vincent, Literacy and Popular Culture in Britain
1750–1914 and The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Modern Europe. - See Taylor and Prins, also, more recently, Hall, “Popular Prosody: Spectacle and
the Politics of Victorian Versification,” or Pinch, “Love Thinking.” - Trench, On the Study of Words, 64.
Chapter 2: The Stigma of Meter- Thomas Sheridan’s third edition of A General Dictionary of the English Language
revises “rhetorical grammar” to “prosodial grammar” and emphasizes that the gram-
mar he wishes to provide therein refers only to oratory (lxxx). - Norman MacKenzie, “Introduction to the Fourth Edition,” The Poems of Gerard
Manley Hopkins, xiii. - Abbott, Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges (LI in-text citation),
231; Abbott, Further Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins (LII in-text citation); Abbott,
The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon (LIII in-
text citation); House, The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins (JP in-text
citation); Devlin, Sermons: The Sermons and Devotional Writings of Gerard Manley
Hopkins; Hopkins, Author’s Note on “The Wreck of the Deutschland” (AN in-text
citation). - Miles, “Gerard Hopkins,” 164.
- “From the consequent miseries, the insensate and interminable slaughter, the
hate and filth, we can turn to seek comfort only in the quiet confidence of our souls;
and we look instinctively to the seers and poets of mankind, whose sayings are the or-
acles and prophecies of loveliness and lovingkindness.” From Bridges, “Preface,” The
Spirit of Man. Hopkins’s poems in The Spirit of Man include “Spring and Fall” (9), re-
printed from Miles, ed., Poets and Poetry of the Century, vol. viii; the first stanza of