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Hardcover Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon Book

ISBN: 1501518321

ISBN13: 9781501518324

Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon

(Part of the Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center Series)

This book traces the development of hypermetric verse in Old English and compares it to the cognate traditions of Old Norse and Old Saxon. The study illustrates the inherent flexibility of the hypermetric line and shows how poets were able to manipulate this flexibility in different contexts for different practical and rhetorical purposes. This mode of analysis is therefore able to show what degree of control the poets had over the traditional...

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