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This book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period.
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This book explores the history and development of English alliterative meter, and considers why the form has remained so enigmatic.
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What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twe
The ‘Roman de la Rose' and Thirteenth-Century Thought
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The thirteenth-century allegorical dream vision, the Roman de la Rose, transformed how medieval literary texts engaged with philosophical ideas. Written in Old
The Shapes of Early English Poetry
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This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, inc