Evolution of Verse Structure in Old and Middle English Poetry

Evolution of Verse Structure in Old and Middle English Poetry

From the Earliest Alliterative Poems to Iambic Pentameter

Russom, Geoffrey

Cambridge University Press

04/2017

332

Dura

Inglês

9781107148338

15 a 20 dias

600

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1. General principles of poetic form; 2. Indo-European and Germanic meters; 3. Old English meter in the era of Beowulf; 4. From late Old English meter to Middle English meter; 5. Middle English type A1 and the hypermetrical b-verse; 6. Type A1 in the a-verse; 7. Types B and C; 8. Survival and extinction in types A2, Da, and E; 9. Type Db and the hypermetrical a-verse; 10. The birth of English iambic meter; 11. General summary.