English Alliterative Verse - Poetic Tradition and Literary History

Informationen zum Autor Eric Weiskott is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College, Massachusetts. In addition to publishing widely on alliterative verse and early English literary history in journals such as Anglo-Saxon England, ELH, Modern Language Quarterly, Modern Philology, Review of English Studies, and Yearbook of Langland Studies, Weiskott is also a practicing poet. Most recently his poems have appeared in burntdistrict, Cricket Online Review, and paper nautilus. His first poetry chapbook was Sharp Fish (2008). With Irina Dumitrescu, he is currently co-editing a volume of essays with the working title Early English Poetics and the History of Style. Klappentext A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history. Zusammenfassung This revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition sheds new light on poems from Beowulf to Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! and challenges the idea that the alliterative tradition falls into two halves divided by the Norman Conquest. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Beowulf and verse history; 2. Prologues to Old English poetry; 3. Lawman, the last Old English poet and the first Middle English poet; 4. Prologues to Middle English alliterative poetry; 5. The Erkenwald poet's sense of history; 6. The alliterative tradition in the sixteenth century.

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• Authors: Eric Weiskott, Eric (Boston College Weiskott, Weiskott Eric
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781107169654
• ISBN: 978-1-107-16965-4
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets