The evolution of verse structure in Old and Middle English poetry : from the earliest alliterative poems to iambic pentameter /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;
98. |
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Table of Contents:
- General principles of poetic form
- Indo-European and Germanic meters
- Old English meter in the era of Beowulf
- From late Old English meter to Middle English meter
- Middle English type A1 and the hypermetrical b-verse
- Type A1 in the a-verse
- Types B and C
- Survival and extinction in types A2, Da, and E
- Type Db and the hypermetrical a-verse
- The birth of English iambic meter
- General summary.