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Early English metre /Thomas A. Bredehoft.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, (c)2005.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 183 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442627208
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PE257 .E275 2005
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
1.2. Sieversian formalism -- 2.1. A new formalism for classical Old English metre -- 2.2. Scanning Old English verse -- 2.3. Additional rules : hypermetric verses, rhyme, and alliteration -- 2.4. Classical Old English poetics -- 3.1. Late Old English verse -- 3.2. AElfric and late Old English verse -- 3.3. The poetics of late Old English verse -- 4.1. Layamon and Early Middle English verse -- 4.2. Layamon's Old English poetics.
Subject: "Thomas A. Bredehoft's Early English Metre is a reassessment of the metrical rules for English poetry from Beowulf to Layamon. Bredehoft offers a new account of many of the most puzzling features of Old English poetry - anacrusis, alliteration patterns, rhyme, and hypermetric verses - and further offers a clear account of late Old English verse as it descended from the classical verse as observed in Beowulf. He makes the surprising and controversial discovery that AElfric's alliterative works are formally indistinguishable from late verse." "Discussing the early Middle English verse-forms of Layamon's Brut, Bredehoft not only demonstrates that they can be understood as developing from late Old English, but that Layamon seems to have known, and quoted from, the poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Early English Metre presents a new perspective on early English verse and a new perspective on much of early English literary history. It is an essential addition to the literature on Old and Middle English and will be widely discussed among scholars in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Sieversian formalism -- 2.1. A new formalism for classical Old English metre -- 2.2. Scanning Old English verse -- 2.3. Additional rules : hypermetric verses, rhyme, and alliteration -- 2.4. Classical Old English poetics -- 3.1. Late Old English verse -- 3.2. AElfric and late Old English verse -- 3.3. The poetics of late Old English verse -- 4.1. Layamon and Early Middle English verse -- 4.2. Layamon's Old English poetics.

"Thomas A. Bredehoft's Early English Metre is a reassessment of the metrical rules for English poetry from Beowulf to Layamon. Bredehoft offers a new account of many of the most puzzling features of Old English poetry - anacrusis, alliteration patterns, rhyme, and hypermetric verses - and further offers a clear account of late Old English verse as it descended from the classical verse as observed in Beowulf. He makes the surprising and controversial discovery that AElfric's alliterative works are formally indistinguishable from late verse." "Discussing the early Middle English verse-forms of Layamon's Brut, Bredehoft not only demonstrates that they can be understood as developing from late Old English, but that Layamon seems to have known, and quoted from, the poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Early English Metre presents a new perspective on early English verse and a new perspective on much of early English literary history. It is an essential addition to the literature on Old and Middle English and will be widely discussed among scholars in the field."--BOOK JACKET.

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