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The Unity of Middle English Alliterative Poetry

Speculum, 1983
The basic unity of the Middle English alliterative verse corpus has often been asserted. In the 1970s, Geoffrey Shepherd conceded the enormous variety of alliterative poems in style and outlook, but argued that "they stand in a continuum" whose terms are "moral insight and historical truth'';1 Thorlac Turville-Petre claimed that "we are here dealing ...
S. Barney
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Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry

Studies in the Fantastic, 2021
Although alliterative poetry—a medieval Germanic meter based on similar-sounding initial stressed syllables—first flourished in Old English and Old Norse literature, a resurgence of the meter has appeared within the twentieth century. The most famous modern practitioners have been J. R. R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound, and W. H.
Dennis Wilson Wise
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Strophic Patterns in Middle English Alliterative Poetry

Modern Philology, 1977
It has been clear for a very long time that the fourteenth-century Alliterative Revival was no revival at all, that the appearance of a substantial number of poems written in the native alliterative measure was not a conscious literary resurrection of a dead or moribund English tradition.
Hoyt N. Duggan
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Synonyms for Man, Warriorr in LaaamonnS Brut and Old English Alliterative Poetry

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Laȝamon’s Brut is well-known for being a transitional stage between Old English and Middle English alliterative poetry. On the one hand, it preserves some traces of the Old English poetic tradition, such as, for instance, certain poetic words. On the other hand, even those traces that seem to be similar to Old English undergo significant, though subtle,
Maria Volkonskaya
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Oral-Formulaic Technique and Middle English Alliterative Poetry

Speculum, 1957
IN "Oral-Formulaic Character of Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry,"2 Francis P. Magoun, Jr, has demonstrated that the structure of Old English poetry is largely formulaic and that it was composed by oral poets, using the methods which had been shown by Milman Parry to lie behind Greek epic verse and Yugoslav oral poetry.
R. Waldron
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Alliterative lexical collocations in eddic poetry

2016
Lexical collocations stem from the diction of traditional oral alliterative poetry and may be regarded as one of the stylistic features which characterise the corpus of mythological and heroic lays preserved in Codex Regius (GKS 2365, 4°). The versifiers’ creation of privileged, though not necessarily semantically close, combinations of two or more ...
Maria Elena Ruggerini
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The Shape of the B-Verse in Middle English Alliterative Poetry

Speculum, 1986
We have been studying Middle English alliterative verse for over a century, but so far we lack an authoritative description of the rhythmic constraints that governed the poets who wrote alliterative verse. Though some scholars have tried to show the survival of Sievers's five types, few editors have dared, in the absence of a comprehensive and ...
Hoyt N. Duggan
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Alliterative Patterning as a Basis for Emendation in Middle English Alliterative Poetry

Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1986
Hoyt N. Duggan
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Alliterative poetry

Old English and Middle English Poetry, 2019
D. Pearsall
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