The evolution of verse structure in Old and Middle English poetry : from the earliest alliterative poems to iambic pentameter / Geoffrey Russom.
Russom, Geoffrey, author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2017
PR508.V45 R87 2017
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Title The evolution of verse structure in Old and Middle English poetry : from the earliest alliterative poems to iambic pentameter / Geoffrey Russom.
Author Russom, Geoffrey, author.
ISBN 9781108167284 (electronic bk.)
1108167284 (electronic bk.)
9781107148338
1107148332
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 319 pages.)
Call Number PR508.V45 R87 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 821.009
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-316) and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Added Corporate Author ProQuest (Firm)
Series Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 98.
Available in Other Form Original 1107148332
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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.

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