LEADER 04339nam 22005892 450 001 9910150171703321 005 20161129165720.0 010 $a1-316-76186-X 010 $a1-316-76690-X 010 $a1-316-76618-7 010 $a1-316-76762-0 010 $a1-316-71867-0 010 $a1-316-76834-1 010 $a1-316-77050-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000942418 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4732911 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781316718674 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000942418 100 $a20160222d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEnglish alliterative verse $epoetic tradition and literary history /$fEric Weiskott$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in medieval literature ;$v96 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Nov 2016). 311 $a1-316-62070-0 311 $a1-107-16965-8 327 $aEvolution of the alliterative b-verse, 650-1550 -- Introduction: the durable alliterative tradition -- Beowulf and verse history -- The evolution of alliterative meter, 950-1100 -- Verse history and language history -- Beowulf and the unknown shape of Old English literary history -- Prologues to Old English poetry -- Old English prologues and Old English poetic styles -- The Beowulf prologue and the history of style -- Lawman, the last Old English poet and the first Middle English poet -- Lawman and the evolution of alliterative meter -- Lawman at a crossroads in literary history -- Prologues to Middle English alliterative poetry -- The continuity of the alliterative tradition, 1250-1340 -- Excursus: Middle English alliterating stanzaic poetry -- Middle English prologues, romaunce, and Middle English poetic styles -- The Erkenwald poet's sense of history -- A meditation on histories -- St. Erkenwald and the idea of alliterative verse in late medieval England -- Authors, styles, and the search for a Middle English canon -- The alliterative tradition in the sixteenth century -- The alliterative tradition in its tenth century -- Unmodernity: the idea of alliterative verse in the sixteenth century -- Conclusion: whose tradition? -- Note to the appendices -- Appendix A. Fifteen late Old English poems omitted from ASPR -- Appendix B. Six early Middle English alliterative poems -- Appendix C. An early Middle English alliterative poem in Latin -- Glossary of technical terms. 330 $aEnglish Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth century, when alliterative poetry ceased to be composed. Eric Weiskott draws on the study of meter to challenge the traditional division of medieval English literary history into Old English and Middle English periods. The two halves of the alliterative tradition, divided by the Norman Conquest of 1066, have been studied separately since the nineteenth century; this book uses the history of metrical form and its cultural meanings to bring the two halves back together. In combining literary history and metrical description into a new kind of history he calls 'verse history', Weiskott reimagines the historical study of poetics. 410 0$aCambridge studies in medieval literature ;$v96. 606 $aEnglish poetry$yOld English, ca. 450-1100$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish poetry$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish language$xVersification 606 $aAlliteration$vPoetry 606 $aPoetics$xHistory$yTo 1500 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish language$xVersification. 615 0$aAlliteration 615 0$aPoetics$xHistory 676 $a821.009 700 $aWeiskott$b Eric$01075075 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910150171703321 996 $aEnglish alliterative verse$92583640 997 $aUNINA