LEADER 03726nam 2200661 450 001 9910459677703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-2720-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442627208 035 $a(CKB)3710000000329264 035 $a(EBL)3296698 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001420431 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12503295 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420431 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11403738 035 $a(PQKB)11255775 035 $a(CEL)418741 035 $a(OCoLC)903421390 035 $a(CaBNVSL)thg00600402 035 $a(DE-B1597)465516 035 $a(OCoLC)944178926 035 $a(OCoLC)999372257 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442627208 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670075 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670075 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256589 035 $a(OCoLC)958580519 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000329264 100 $a20160923h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEarly English metre /$fThomas A. Bredehoft 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2005. 210 4$d©2005 215 $a1 online resource (194 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Old English Studies 311 $a0-8020-3831-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tCHAPTER 1.1 Introduction -- $tCHAPTER 1.2 Sieversian Formalism -- $tCHAPTER 2.1 A New Formalism for Classical Old English Metre -- $tCHAPTER 2.2 Scanning Old English Verse -- $tCHAPTER 2.3 Additional Rules: Hypermetric Verses, Rhyme, and Alliteration -- $tCHAPTER 2.4 Classical Old English Poetics -- $tCHAPTER 3.1 Late Old English Verse -- $tCHAPTER 3.2 Ælfric and Late Old English Verse -- $tCHAPTER 3.3 The Poetics of Late Old English Verse -- $tCHAPTER 4.1 Layamon and Early Middle English Verse -- $tCHAPTER 4.2 Layamon's Old English Poetics -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tBackmatter 330 $aThomas A. Bredehoft's Early English Metre is a reassessment of the metrical rules for English poetry from Beowulf to Layamon. Bredehoft offers a new account of many of the most puzzling features of Old English poetry - anacrusis, alliteration patterns, rhyme, and hypermetric verses - and further offers a clear account of late Old English verse as it descended from the classical verse as observed in Beowulf. He makes the surprising and controversial discovery that Ælfric?s alliterative works are formally indistinguishable from late verse.Discussing the early Middle English verse-forms of Layamon's Brut, Bredehoft not only demonstrates that they can be understood as developing from late Old English, but that Layamon seems to have known, and "ed from, the poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Early English Metre presents a new perspective on early English verse and a new perspective on much of early English literary history. It is an essential addition to the literature on Old and Middle English and will be widely discussed amongst scholars in the field. 410 0$aToronto Old English series. 606 $aEnglish language$yOld English, ca. 450-1100$xVersification 606 $aEnglish language$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xVersification 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish language$xVersification. 615 0$aEnglish language$xVersification. 676 $a829.1/009 700 $aBredehoft$b Thomas A.$0770049 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459677703321 996 $aEarly English metre$92079892 997 $aUNINA