Introduction Chapter 1 Sidney's Ideas on Poetical Form 1.1 The Aim of Poetical Construction 1.2 Two Arguments on Metrical Design 1.2.1 Language and Metre 1.2.2 Foreign Prosodies and Native Tradition 1.3 The Principles of Sidney's Prosody Chapter 2 Sidney's Discussion on the English Poeticality 2.1 Poeticality of Language and the Growth of English Poeticality 2.2 The Accounts of Sidney's Ideas on English Poeticality 2.2.1 English ��Is Capable of Excellent Exercising�� 2.2.2 English ��Is Fit to Honour Poesie, and to Be Honoured by Poesie�� 2.3 The Cultural Significance of Sidney's Ideas on English Poeticality Chapter 3 Sidney's Experiments on English Quantitative Verse 3.1 The Background of Sidney's Experiments 3.2 Application of Latin Prosody into English Verse 3.3 Quantity and Stress 3.4 Conversion to the Accentual-Syllabic Verse 3.5 The Influence of Sidney's Experiments Chapter 4 The Accentual-Syllabic Verse 4.1 Influences on the Rhythm Contours 4.2 Sidney's Prosodic View on the Accentual-Syllabic Verse 4.3 From Latin Caesura to English Pause 4.4 Substitutes in the Accentual-Syllabic Lines, Excluding the Iambic Pentameter 4.5 Substitutes in the Iambic Pentameter Verse Chapter 5 Devices in the Design of English Stanzas 5.1 Feminine Rhyme 5.2 Enjambment Chapter 6 Sidney's Anglicization of Foreign Poetical Genres 6.1 Elegiacs 6.2 Sapphic Stanza 6.3 Madrigal-Poem 6.4 Sonnet and Sonnet Sequence Conclusion Works Cited Selected Bibliography