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Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650
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Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations
Note on Quotations and Scansion
Preface
Introduction. Modernity: The Problem of a History
PART I. ALLITERATIVE METER, TETRAMETER, POLITICAL PROPHECY
Chapter 1. English Political Prophecy: Coordinates of Form and History
Chapter 2. The Age of Prophecy
Chapter 3. The Ireland Prophecy and the Future of Alliterative Verse
Chapter 4. Tetrameter: The Future of Alliterative Verse
Chapter 5. Where Have All the Pentameter Prophecies Gone?

PART II. ALLITERATIVE METER, PENTAMETER, LANGLAND
Chapter 6. Alliterative Meter and Blank Verse, 1540-1667
Chapter 7. The Rhymelessness of Piers Plowman
Chapter 8. Langland's Meter and Blank Verse, 1700-2000
PART III. TETRAMETER, PENTAMETER, CHAUCER
Chapter 9. Chaucer and the Problem of Modernity
Chapter 10. Chaucer's English Metrical Phonology: Tetrameter to Pentameter
Chapter 11. The Age of Pentameter
Conclusion. From Archive to Canon
Appendix A. English Prophecy Books
Appendix B. Some Texts of English Verse Prophecies Not Noted in NIMEV.

Appendix C. Compilers, Scribes, and Owners of Manuscripts Containing Political Prophecy
Appendix D. The Ireland Prophecy
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts and Rare Printed Books
Index of Anonymous Poems
General Index
Acknowledgments