The Alcaic Metre in the English Imagination 1350232491, 9781350232495

The Alcaic Metre in the English Imagination 1350232491, 9781350232495

This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form -- the alcaic metre -- found its way into English

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The Alcaic Metre in the English Imagination 9781350232495, 9781350232525, 9781350232501

This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form – the alcaic metre – found its way into English p

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The principles of English metre

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Early English Metre 9781442627208

Early English Metre presents a new perspective on early English verse and a new perspective on much of early English lit

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Strange Music: The Metre of the English Heroic Line

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Old English Metre: An Introduction 9781442693838

Old English Metre offers an essential framework for the critical analysis of metrical structures and interpretations in

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The Saturnian Metre 9781463221751

Wallace Martin Lindsay addresses the still unresolved problem of Saturnian meter in early Latin poetry, presenting the c

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Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre 9781802700251

An up-to-the-minute survey of the importance of metrical analysis to textual criticism in Old English studies from inter

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Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429–1829 9780271084275

In this book, Gail Orgelfinger examines the ways in which English historians and illustrators depicted Joan of Arc over

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A Comparative Study of Old English Metre 9781442673175

After analysing the dominant pattterns of the earliest accentual verse, he turns to Old English metre, and looks closely

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