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.
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.
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