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beat, 111, 131, 139
Beeching, Henry, 87–88, 222n22
Beer, Gillian, 8
“Bericht: Januar” (Goethe), 193
birds, 59, 83–87, 105–6, 190–97, 201
Blair, Hugh, 8
Blair, Kirstie, 15
blank verse: Milton’s, 89–90, 92; Newbolt
on, 130–31, 132; Owen and, 164–65,
178; Symonds on, 88
“Blank Verse of Milton, The” (Symonds),
82, 88
Bloom, Harold, 55
Blunden, Edmund, 147–48, 176
Bourne, Jane, 32, 117
Bradbury, Malcolm, 3
Bradley, Henry, 93, 107
Brewer, R. F., 150, 236n8
Bridges, Robert: on accentual verse, 90–91;
Anglo-Saxonism and, 91, 97; attempts
at new metrical system, 46–47; on clas-
sical prosody, 107; correspondence with
Hopkins, 83, 84, 220n73; correspon-
dence with Mayor, 92–93, 223–24n38;
correspondence with Newbolt, 131–33,
232n63, 233n66; death of, 13; on educa-
tion, 93–94, 104; education of, 80, 105,
225n68, 226n71; on English ear, 107;
on English meter, 13, 79–80; English
prosody and, 97–98, 108; on English
verse, 90; on free verse, 130, 187; Hop-
kins and, 67, 219n59; Hopkins’s poetry
and, 49, 220n73; Mayor on, 92; metrical
mastery and, 83, 87; on Milton’s prosody,
88, 89, 107; neo-Miltonic syllabics and,
106; on Paradise Lost, 87–90; Patmore
and, 219–20n64; phonetic spelling and,
132; poetic form and, 79, 81; as poet
laureate, 80, 105; Pound on, 13, 182–87;
on pronunciation, 132; propaganda and,
112, 234n75; prosodic experiments of,
184, 187–88; prosody wars and, 79, 80,
104; quantitative verse and, 94, 106,
232n63; reception as poet, 80; reformed
spelling and, 77, 132; rhythmic experi-
ments of, 82–83; on scansion, 107; on
Skeat, 223n35; Society for Pure English
and, 13, 98; sprung rhythm and, 82–83;
on stress, 90–91; translations of metrical
form and, 6; typography and, 83; “The
Wreck of the Deutschland” and, 61, 67,
219n56
Bridges, Robert, literary criticism of: “A Let-
ter to a Musician on English Prosody,”
186; Milton’s Prosody (see Milton’s
Prosody [Bridges]); Milton’s Prosody with
a Chapter on Accentual Verse, 90–92, 93–
94; “On the Elements of Blank Verse,”
214n78; “On the Elements of Milton’s
Blank Verse,” 87–89; The Prosody of Para-
dise Regained and Samson Agonistes, 89;
The Spirit of Man, 13, 49, 51, 80, 187
Bridges, Robert, poetry of: “Flycatchers,”
105–7, 185, 192, 226n76; The Growth of
Love, 81–82, 86, 221n4, 221n6, 222n13;
“London Snow,” 83; “On a Dead Child,”
83; Poems, 83, 87; Poems Written in
1913 , 185; “Poor Poll,” 13, 188–98, 202;
Shorter Poems, 81; “Sonnet,” 83, 222n13;
“Sonnet–I Would Be a Bird,” 84–87; The
Testament of Beauty, 185; “Verses Writ-
ten for Mrs. Daniel,” 225n69
Bridges, Tom, 127
Briggs, Asa, 111
Brinsley-Richards, James, 105
Britannic, 91, 194
British Education (Sheridan), 16
British Empire of letters, 52–54
Brock, Arthur J., 146–47, 161–62, 164, 166,
168, 237n34
Brooke, Rupert, 184
Brown, Goold, 43–44, 45, 213n74
Brown, William, 159
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 6, 163, 198,
199
Browning, Robert, 6
Brut (Layamon), 23
Burns, Robert, 6, 31, 157
Burt, Seymour, 20–22cadence, 39, 42, 182, 183
caesura, 88
“Caged Skylark, The” (Hopkins), 240n17
“Call, The” ( J. Pope), 136
Cambridge University, 28–29, 45, 46, 111
Campbell, Matthew, 240n23
Carroll, Lewis, 31
Cassell’s Library of English Literature,
209n12
“Castaway, The” (Cowper), 147–48
Cavitch, Max, 207n10
chalk lines, 59, 61, 64
Chambers’s Narrative Series of Standard
Reading Books,... (1863), 114