03726nam 2200661 450 991045967770332120200520144314.01-4426-2720-410.3138/9781442627208(CKB)3710000000329264(EBL)3296698(SSID)ssj0001420431(PQKBManifestationID)12503295(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420431(PQKBWorkID)11403738(PQKB)11255775(CEL)418741(OCoLC)903421390(CaBNVSL)thg00600402(DE-B1597)465516(OCoLC)944178926(OCoLC)999372257(DE-B1597)9781442627208(MiAaPQ)EBC4670075(Au-PeEL)EBL4670075(CaPaEBR)ebr11256589(OCoLC)958580519(EXLCZ)99371000000032926420160923h20052005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEarly English metre /Thomas A. BredehoftToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2005.©20051 online resource (194 p.)Toronto Old English Studies0-8020-3831-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1.1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 1.2 Sieversian Formalism -- CHAPTER 2.1 A New Formalism for Classical Old English Metre -- CHAPTER 2.2 Scanning Old English Verse -- CHAPTER 2.3 Additional Rules: Hypermetric Verses, Rhyme, and Alliteration -- CHAPTER 2.4 Classical Old English Poetics -- CHAPTER 3.1 Late Old English Verse -- CHAPTER 3.2 Ælfric and Late Old English Verse -- CHAPTER 3.3 The Poetics of Late Old English Verse -- CHAPTER 4.1 Layamon and Early Middle English Verse -- CHAPTER 4.2 Layamon's Old English Poetics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- BackmatterThomas A. Bredehoft's Early English Metre is a reassessment of the metrical rules for English poetry from Beowulf to Layamon. Bredehoft offers a new account of many of the most puzzling features of Old English poetry - anacrusis, alliteration patterns, rhyme, and hypermetric verses - and further offers a clear account of late Old English verse as it descended from the classical verse as observed in Beowulf. He makes the surprising and controversial discovery that Ælfric?s alliterative works are formally indistinguishable from late verse.Discussing the early Middle English verse-forms of Layamon's Brut, Bredehoft not only demonstrates that they can be understood as developing from late Old English, but that Layamon seems to have known, and "ed from, the poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Early English Metre presents a new perspective on early English verse and a new perspective on much of early English literary history. It is an essential addition to the literature on Old and Middle English and will be widely discussed amongst scholars in the field.Toronto Old English series.English languageOld English, ca. 450-1100VersificationEnglish languageMiddle English, 1100-1500VersificationElectronic books.English languageVersification.English languageVersification.829.1/009Bredehoft Thomas A.770049MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459677703321Early English metre2079892UNINA