A Sporting Lexicon of the Fifteenth Century
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Medium Ævum Monographs, vol. NS25
Studies in the Metre of Alliterative Verse
Ad Putter, Judith A. Jefferson, Myra Stokes
- Pages: approx. x + 278 p.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2026
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Summary
The volume provides a comprehensive study of the metre of the unrhymed poems of the Alliterative Revival. It includes detailed analysis and discussion of line endings, alliterative patterning, historical grammar, the relationship between linguistic stress and beat, and presents new discoveries regarding the metrical rules of the a-verse.
