Reconstructing Alliterative Verse

Ian (Loyola University, Chicago) Cornelius

Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Recent studies of Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman point towards a new understanding of English literary history in the Middle Ages. This book explains why alliterative meter has resisted modern efforts at comprehension, how it differed from accentual-syllabic forms, and why it died out.

ISBN-13
9781107154100
ISBN-10
1107154103
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2017
Publication date
2017-07-20
Pages
234
Dimensions
235x159x22
Weight
474