Geoffrey Russom

The Evolution of Verse Structure in Old and Middle English Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781107148338
• ISBN-10: 1107148332
• Artikelnr.: 47721295

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Russom is Emeritus Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Brown University, Rhode Island and Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres, Emeritus. He is the author of Old English Meter and Linguistic Theory (Cambridge, 1987) and Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre (Cambridge, 1998), and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on the theory of poetic form, the history of the English language, and the artistic excellence of preliterate verse.

Inhaltsangabe

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.