ENGLISH

The Meter and Melody of "Beowulf"

By Thomas Cable

Book information

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
1974
ISBN
0252003489, 9780252003486
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6399746 bytes)
Series
Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, 64
Pages
X+122\138
Topic
Literature
Time added
2018-05-19 23:41:25

Description

Introduction 1 Problems in Old English Prosody 6 The Number of Stresses in an Old English Verse 20 Constraints on Anacrusis in Type A 32 Intermediate Stress in Type E 45 Clashing Stress in Types C and D 65 Metrical Simplicity and Type D 75 The Abstract Pattern of Old English Meter 84 The Melody of "Beowulf" 94 Bibliography 111 Index 119

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