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The Composition of Old English Poetry

The Composition of Old English Poetry

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Book 20

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0521030765
ISBN13: 9780521030762
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 11 2007
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book offers an imaginative new way of understanding the relationship between syntax and meter in Old English verse. It challenges the view that Old English poetry is composed in loose syntax to compensate for the strict requirements of prosody, such as meter and alliteration. The author proposes a prosodical syntax to replace the syntactic laws of Hans Kuhn through its greater accuracy and wider range of application. She formulates three concise rules that apply to the entire Old English poetic corpus.

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