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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival

2025 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award Finalist for Myth and Fantasy Studies If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, Dennis Wilson Wise argues that the answer is “yes.” Over the last ten decades, poets working in fantasy ...
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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,
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Alliterative Poetry in Middle English

The Modern Language Review, 1932
A. H. Smith, J. P. Oakden
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Alliterative Poetry in Middle English: A Survey of the Traditions.

Modern Language Notes, 1937
Henry L. Savage, J. P. Oakden, Elizabeth R. Innes   +2 more
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Langland's Reading of Alliterative Poetry

The Modern Language Review, 1965
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Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages: An Anthology

The Yearbook of English Studies, 1992
David J. Williams, Thorlac Turville-Petre   +1 more
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Introduction. Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival

2023
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