Evolution of Verse Structure in Old and Middle English Poetry - From the Earliest Alliterative Poems to Iambic Pentameter

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period. Zusammenfassung This comprehensive study traces the evolution of verse structure in Old and Middle English poetry from the earliest alliterative poems to iambic pentameter. It provides a general theory of poetic form with a glossary of technical terms and explores how poetic form is perceived by the human mind. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Russom, Geoffrey (Brown University Russom, Russom Geoffrey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2017
• EAN: 9781107148338
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14833-8
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Linguistics, English, Poetry, Literature & literary studies, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Historical & comparative linguistics, British Isles, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Historical and comparative linguistics, Poetry / Poems