index 267
Lectures on Rhetoric (H. Blair), 8
Le Gallienne, Richard, 120–21
Leighton, Angela, 15
Leighton, Lord, 153
“Letter from the Front, A” (Newbolt), 130
“Letter to a Musician on English Prosody, A”
(Bridges), 186
Le Vay, John, 121
Levine, Caroline, 14
Lewis, C. Day, 176, 180
Lewis, C. S., 207n8
Lewis, Pericles, 3
linguistic changes, 233n68
Linguistic Moment, The (Miller), 66
“London Snow” (Bridges), 83
London University, 210n26
Lootens, Tricia, 119
“Lord Roberts” (Kipling ), 118
Loring, Andrew, 97, 99
Lowell, James Russell, 151
Loy, Mina, 187
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 7, 22–23,
110, 209n11, 236n13
Mackail, John William, 224n53
Mackenzie, John M., 118
MacKenzie, Norman, 81, 215n11,
218–19n55
Major, Emma, 199
Mangan, J. A., 118
Mann, Charles Wesley, 32
mark, 75, 77, 221n79. See also metrical
markings
marking systems, 44–45
marking time (military), 170
Markley, A. A., 15, 208n25
Marlborough and Other Poems (Sorley), 158
Marsh, Edward, 145
Mary Augustin Roth, 219n62
masculine centrism, 118
Masterman Group, 234n75
Matthews, Brander, 230n35
Matthews, Elkin, 125
Mayor, Joseph, 45, 92–93, 223–24n38
“McAndrews Hymn” (Kipling ), 120
McFarlane, James, 3
Meath, Earl of, 118
Medea (Euripides), 195
Memoria Technica (Grey), 23–26, 27
memorization: Arnold on, 113, 116, 139;
artificial memory methods, 23–24, 25 ,
26, 27, 31–32; ease and instinct in, 27;
history and, 29; meter in histories and,
32; of poetry, 113, 116; Revised Code
and, 31; Robson on, 15; traditions in
classical education, 20; in a wartime con-
text, 150
“Men Who March Away” (Hardy), 137, 140
Meredith, George, 6
meter: abstraction of, 204; culture and, 10–
14, 48; gendering of, 199; in grammar
study, 35; heroic meter, 38; in histories,
32; hybrid metrical forms, 6; metrical
experiments, 11, 208n25; national meter,
198; as an organizing principle, 1–2;
pedagogical model for, 108; popular con-
cept of, 11, 32; pre-Chaucerian, 36; term,
18–19, 32, 39
metrical communities, 5–10
metrical discourses, 1, 6, 34, 198–99, 202–3
Metrical Epitome of the History of England
(Burt), 20–22
“Metrical Feet” (S. Coleridge), 201
Metrical History of England;.. ., A (Dibdin),
28, 209n23, 210n24
metrical irrelevance, 48–52
metricality, 19, 20, 22
metrical markings: in Anglo-Saxon verse, 74;
Hopkins and, 49, 50, 54–61, 64, 68–71,
74–78, 215n10-11, 215n13, 216n29; in-
stress and, 73, 74; material form of, 52
metrical mastery, 83, 84, 87
metrical romances, 208n9
metrical translation, 5, 6
Meynell, Alice, 198–203, 208n15
Michael, Ian, 113
Miles, Alfred A., 49
militarism, 118, 126, 144
military enlistment, 152–53, 158
military-metrical complex, 130, 182
Miller, J. Hillis, 66
Milton, John, 10, 82, 87–90, 93–94, 96,
222n26
Milton’s prosody, 82, 88, 89, 107
Milton’s Prosody (Bridges): appendices to
1901 version, 223n29; English prosody
and, 107; impact of, 87; as preface to Pa r-
adise Lost, 10; publications of, 45, 89–90,
214n78, 214n79; revisions to, 81
Milton’s Prosody with a Chapter on Accentual
Verse (Bridges), 90–92, 93–94
mimicry, 191, 192