IX. Chief Metrical Forms: Part II

Date Spenserian Stanza Ottava Rima Rhyme Royal Sonnet

Chaucer (d. 1400)

James I of Scotland

1500 Henryson

Sackville Wyat

Spenser Surrey

1600 Spenser

Britannia’s Pastorals Shakespeare

Drayton

Milton

1700

Thomson

Shenstone

1800 Wordsworth

Keats Byron Byron

Shelley Keats Keats

Byron Shelley

Tennyson Tennyson

W. Morris

1900 D. G. Rossetti