English alliterative verse : poetic tradition and literary history /

English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth century, when alliterative poetry ceased to b...

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Main Author: Weiskott, Eric (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 96.
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505 0 |a Evolution of the alliterative b-verse, 650-1550 -- Introduction: the durable alliterative tradition -- Beowulf and verse history -- The evolution of alliterative meter, 950-1100 -- Verse history and language history -- Beowulf and the unknown shape of Old English literary history -- Prologues to Old English poetry -- Old English prologues and Old English poetic styles -- The Beowulf prologue and the history of style -- Lawman, the last Old English poet and the first Middle English poet -- Lawman and the evolution of alliterative meter -- Lawman at a crossroads in literary history -- Prologues to Middle English alliterative poetry -- The continuity of the alliterative tradition, 1250-1340 -- Excursus: Middle English alliterating stanzaic poetry -- Middle English prologues, romaunce, and Middle English poetic styles -- The Erkenwald poet's sense of history -- A meditation on histories -- St. Erkenwald and the idea of alliterative verse in late medieval England -- Authors, styles, and the search for a Middle English canon -- The alliterative tradition in the sixteenth century -- The alliterative tradition in its tenth century -- Unmodernity: the idea of alliterative verse in the sixteenth century -- Conclusion: whose tradition? -- Note to the appendices -- Appendix A. Fifteen late Old English poems omitted from ASPR -- Appendix B. Six early Middle English alliterative poems -- Appendix C. An early Middle English alliterative poem in Latin -- Glossary of technical terms. 
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