Early English Metre /

Thomas A. Bredehoft's Early English Metre is a reassessment of the metrical rules for English poetry from Beowulf to Layamon. Bredehoft offers a new account of many of the most puzzling features of Old English poetry - anacrusis, alliteration patterns, rhyme, and hypermetric verses - and furthe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bredehoft, Thomas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Colección:Toronto Old English Studies
Temas:
English language > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Versification.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1.1 Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1.2 Sieversian Formalism
  • CHAPTER 2.1 A New Formalism for Classical Old English Metre
  • CHAPTER 2.2 Scanning Old English Verse
  • CHAPTER 2.3 Additional Rules: Hypermetric Verses, Rhyme, and Alliteration
  • CHAPTER 2.4 Classical Old English Poetics
  • CHAPTER 3.1 Late Old English Verse
  • CHAPTER 3.2 Ælfric and Late Old English Verse
  • CHAPTER 3.3 The Poetics of Late Old English Verse
  • CHAPTER 4.1 Layamon and Early Middle English Verse
  • CHAPTER 4.2 Layamon's Old English Poetics
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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