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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto, Ontario :
University of Toronto Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Toronto Old English series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Sieversian formalism
- 2.1. A new formalism for classical Old English metre
- 2.2. Scanning Old English verse
- 2.3. Additional rules : hypermetric verses, rhyme, and alliteration
- 2.4. Classical Old English poetics
- 3.1. Late Old English verse
- 3.2. AElfric and late Old English verse
- 3.3. The poetics of late Old English verse
- 4.1. Layamon and Early Middle English verse
- 4.2. Layamon's Old English poetics.
