English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History

ISBN-13: 9781316620700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 250 str.

Eric Weiskott

Opis

A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.

Recenzje

'The author's major aim is to demonstrate a continuity of 'verse history' for English alliterative poetry from its first recorded appearance in Old English up to its final flowering in a small group of sixteenth-century poems of political prophecy.' Mark Griffith, Notes and Queries

Spis treści

1. Beowulf and verse history; 2. Prologues to Old English poetry; 3. Lawman, the last Old English poet and the first Middle English poet; 4. Prologues to Middle English alliterative poetry; 5. The Erkenwald poet's sense of history; 6. The alliterative tradition in the sixteenth century.