A textbook that introduces students to Middle English poetry and offers advice about the understanding and interpretation of the genre, covering verse in English and Scots from c.1150 to c.1500.
A textbook that introduces students to Middle English poetry and offers advice about the understanding and interpretation of the genre, covering verse in English and Scots from c.1150 to c.1500.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Daniel Sawyer is Departmental Lecturer in English Literature and Manuscript Studies at the University of Oxford. He read English at Queen Mary, University of London, and studied for his MSt and DPhil in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford. He has held fellowships at the Huntington Library in California, and at Corpus Christi College, Merton College, and St Hilda's College, Oxford. He has spent more than a decade teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Old and Middle English literature; his research interests range across early manuscripts, editing, and the history of poetry seen in long perspective.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1: Why Old Poetry? 2: Wording 3: Phrasing 4: Metre (I): Alternating Metres 5: Metre (II): Alliterative Verse 6: Rhyme 7: Stanzas 8: Grander Designs 9: Manuscripts, Texts, Editions 10: Poetry of Many Tongues 11: Verse Takes Breath Epilogue: Craft in an Unfixed Time Appendix
