Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

In the 18th century there were increasing numbers of such collections, including Thomas D ' Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1719 – 20 ) and Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ).

The English composer Herbert Howells ( 1892 – 1983 ) wrote two significant collections of pieces for clavichord ( Lambert's Clavichord & Howells ' Clavichord ).

By the early 18th century, other publishers began to issue collections of dances as well ; a conservative estimate of the number of dances in the English style published between 1651 and 1810 would run to around 20, 000.

Note: Many of the essays found in these works have been individually translated and can be found in the English collections.

Incest is a somewhat popular topic in English erotic fiction ; there are entire collections and websites devoted solely to this genre, with an entire genre of pornographic pulp fiction known as " incest novels ".

Sufi philosopher Idries Shah published several collections of Nasruddin stories in English, and emphasised their teaching value.

The first English collections, Tommy Thumb's Song Book and a sequel, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, are both thought to have been published before 1744, with such songs becoming known as ' Tommy Thumb's songs '.

* In the First Person-index of 2, 500 + collections of international oral histories in English

There are four complete or nearly complete extant English biblical collections of plays ; although these collections are sometimes referred to as " cycles ," it is now believed that this term may attribute to these collections more coherence than they in fact possess.

Lingard made extensive use of Vatican archives and French, Italian, Spanish and English dispatches, document collections and state papers — the first British historian to do so.

Together with two sets of English songs, discussed below, these collections, dedicated to powerful Elizabethan lords ( Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester and John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley ), probably formed part of Byrd's campaign to re-establish himself in Court circles after the reverses of the 1580s.

In 1588 and 1589 Byrd also published two collections of English songs.

It now holds books from the English, history, and theology collections, mostly secondary sources found on Undergraduate and Graduate reading lists.

It has one of the best collections of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, majolica pottery and English silver.

* J. Jill Robinson ( M. A 1985 ), author of four short story collections who also taught English literature and creative writing at the University of Calgary.

The antiquarian John Leland was commissioned by the King to rescue items of particular interest ( especially manuscript sources of Old English history ), and other collections were made by private individuals ; notably Matthew Parker.

The collections are well represented in these areas: early silks from the Near East, lace, European tapestries and English medieval church embroidery.

In 2012 the section responsible for archive collections was renamed the English Heritage Archive.

He also published two collections of English hymns:

All of the following collections of Conservative and Masorti responsa, unless specifically noted, are in English.

Since then English translations were published by many other companies ( Epic Comics, Comcat, Mojo Press, Dark Horse Comics ) resulting into all kinds of formats and quality — from b / w, American comic book sized budget collections to full color European style albums with many extras.

The project has expanded its original scope ; current collections cover Greco-Roman classics, the English Renaissance.

In English it is applied specifically to those undergarments designed to be visually appealing or erotic.

Many well-known people since their deaths have been discovered to enjoy spankings for erotic purposes or emotional gratification including renowned British Army officer T. E. Lawrence (" Lawrence of Arabia "), influential English theatre critic Kenneth Tynan, TV broadcaster Frank Bough, and English writer John Mortimer.

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The poem was written in Sapphic stanzas, a verse form popularly associated with his compatriot, Sappho, but in which he too excelled, here paraphrased in English to suggest the same rhythms.

Drama in English often used alexandrines before Marlowe and Shakespeare, by whom it was supplanted by iambic pentameter ( 5-foot verse ).

The first verse in the letter, according to the late manuscripts used in most English translations, reads, " Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus.

Titled, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, the book was composed in an English language recreation of Old Norse alliterative verse.

Harvey's dedication to Oxford is a double-edged criticism, praising his English and Latin verse and prose, yet advising him to ' put away your feeble pen, your bloodless books, your impractical writings '.

In 1825 he won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for English verse .< ref > In the following year he took his B. A.

* Nathan the Wise ; a dramatic poem in five acts, translated into English verse by Bayard Quincy Morgan.

In contrast to English verse typically characterized by meter, Japanese verse counts sound units known as " on " or morae.

The effect of " endecasillabi sciolti " ( loose hendecasyllables ) is similar to English blank verse.

* Juvenal's Satires in English verse, through Google Books

Kennings are virtually absent from the surviving corpus of continental West Germanic verse ; the Old Saxon Heliand contains only one example: lîk-hamo “ body-raiment ” = “ body ” ( Heliand 3453 b ), a compound which, in any case, is normal in West Germanic and North Germanic prose ( Old English līchama, Old High German lîchamo, lîchinamo, Dutch lichaam, Old Icelandic líkamr, líkami, Old Swedish līkhamber, Swedish lekamen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål legeme, Norwegian Nynorsk lekam ).

He reviewed the collection of poems for the 2 June 1816 Examiner, and, in his analysis, he attacked the fragmentary nature of the work and argued, " The fault of Mr Coleridge is, that he comes to no conclusion ... from an excess of capacity, he does little or nothing " and that the poem revealed that " Mr Coleridge can write better nonsense verse than any man in English.

In poetry, metre ( meter in American English ) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.

In many Western classical poetic traditions, the metre of a verse can be described as a sequence of feet, each foot being a specific sequence of syllable types — such as relatively unstressed / stressed ( the norm for English poetry ) or long / short ( as in most classical Latin and Greek poetry ).

In place of using feet, alliterative verse of old Germanic languages such as Old English and Old Norse divided each line into two half-lines.

The earliest English verse romance concerning Merlin is Arthour and Merlin, which drew from the chronicles and the French Lancelot-Grail.

As early as 1576, Edward de Vere was writing about this subject in his poem Loss of Good Name, which Professor Steven W. May described as " a defiant lyric without precedent in English Renaissance verse.

In Modern English verse the pattern of stresses primarily differentiate feet, so rhythm based on meter in Modern English is most often founded on the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables ( alone or elided ).

The formal patterns of meter used in Modern English verse to create rhythm no longer dominate contemporary English poetry.

The iamb, for example, is the most natural form of rhythm in the English language, and generally produces a subtle but stable verse.

For example, Robert Pinsky has argued that while dactyls are important in classical verse, English dactylic verse uses dactyls very irregularly and can be better described based on patterns of iambs and anapests, feet which he considers natural to the language.