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Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 by Eric Weiskott

Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650

Eric Weiskott

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What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrame...

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