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BL
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839547
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Bredehoft, Thomas A.
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| Title & Author
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Early English metre /\ Thomas A. Bredehoft.
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| Publication Statement
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Toronto ;Buffalo :: University of Toronto Press,, ©2005.
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| Series Statement
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Toronto Old English series
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viii, 183 pages ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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080203831X
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: 9780802038319
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index.
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| Abstract
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"Thomas A. Bredehoft's Early English Metre is a reassessment of the metrical rules for English poetry from Beowulf to Layamon. Bredehoft offers a new account of many of the most puzzling features of Old English poetry - anacrusis, alliteration patterns, rhyme, and hypermetric verses - and further offers a clear account of late Old English verse as it descended from the classical verse as observed in Beowulf. He makes the surprising and controversial discovery that AElfric's alliterative works are formally indistinguishable from late verse." "Discussing the early Middle English verse-forms of Layamon's Brut, Bredehoft not only demonstrates that they can be understood as developing from late Old English, but that Layamon seems to have known, and quoted from, the poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Early English Metre presents a new perspective on early English verse and a new perspective on much of early English literary history. It is an essential addition to the literature on Old and Middle English and will be widely discussed among scholars in the field."--Jacket.
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English language-- Middle English, 1100-1500-- Versification.
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English language-- Old English, ca. 450-1100-- Versification.
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Anglais (Langue)-- ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais)-- Versification.
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Altenglisch
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English language-- Middle English-- Versification.
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English language-- Old English-- Versification.
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Metrik-- Altenglisch.
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Metrik-- Mittelenglisch.
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Metrum
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Metriek.
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Middelengels.
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Oudengels.
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Altenglisch.
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| Dewey Classification
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829.1/009
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| LC Classification
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PE257.B74 2005
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18.03bcl
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cci1icclacc
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HH 1177rvk
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| Parallel Title
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Early English meter
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