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30. T. S. Omond, English Metrists, Oxford, 1 921; Pallister Barkas,
A Critique of Modem English Prosody, Halle, 1934 (Studien zur
englischen Phi/ologie, ed. Morsbach and Hecht, LXXXII).
31. Cf. esp. M. W. Croll, "Music and Metrics," Studies in Philology,
XX (1923), pp. 388-94; G. R. Stewart, Jr., The Technique of Eng-
lish Verse, New York, 1930.
32. This notation comes from Morris W. Croll, The Rhythm of English
Verse (mimeographed pamphlet, Princeton, 1929), p. 8. It seems
a highly artificial reading to substitute a rest for a primary accent.
33. The most elaborate theoretical book, with hundreds of examples, is
William Thomson's The Rhythm of Sfeech, Glasgow, 1923. A recent
subtle exponent is John C. Pope, The Rhythm of Beowulf, New
Haven, 1942.
34. E.g., Donald Stauffer, The Nature of Poetry, New York, 1946, pp.
203-4.
35. George R. Stewart, Jr., Modem Metrical Technique as Illustrated by
Ballad Meter (1 700-1920), New York, 1922.
36. Cf. bibliography, Section III, 2.
37. W. L. Schramm, University of Iowa Studies, Series on Aims and Prog-
ress of Research, No. 46, Iowa City, la., 1935.
38. Cf. The title-page of Henry Lanz, The Physical Basis of Rime, Stan-
ford Press, 1 93 1.
39. Vittorio Benussi, Psychologie der Zeitauffassung, Heidelberg, 1913,
pp. 215 ff.
40. G. R. Stewart, The Technique of English Verse, New York, 1 930,
P- 3-
41. Saran, Deutsche Verslehre, loc. cit., p. ij Verrier, Essai . . . , Vol. I,
p. ix.
42. Stewart has to introduce the term "phrase," which implies an under-
standing of meaning.
43. The most important formalist publications on prosody are these: Boris
Eikhenbaum, Melodika lyricheskogo stikha {The Melody of Lyric
Verse), St. Petersburg, 1922; Boris Tomashevsky, Ruskoye stikhoslo-
zhenye, Metrika {Russian Versification, Metrics), St. Petersburg, 1923,
O Stikhe. Statyi. [Essays on Verse), Leningrad, 1 929; Yuryi N. Tyn-
yanov, Problemy stikhotvomago yazyka {Problems of Poetic Language),
Leningrad, 1924; Roman Jakobson, O cheshskom stikhe {On
Czech Verse), Berlin, 1923; Viktor Zhirmunsky, Kompozitsiya
liricheskikh stikhotvorenii {The Composition of Lyrical Poems), Pet-
rograd, 1921, Vvedenie v metriku. Teoriya stikha {Introduction to
Metrics: The Theory of Verse), Leningrad, 1925.