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352 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780812252644
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 15 January 2021
Description
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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352 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780812252644
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 15 January 2021
Description
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...