The Lost Tradition: Essays on Middle English Alliterative Poetry by John Scattergood

The Lost Tradition: Essays on Middle English Alliterative Poetry

John Scattergood

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nonfiction history poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
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Four stresses, a line broken in two by a caesura, and a pattern of alliteration linking the two half-lines were features of the staple manner of Anglo-Saxon verse. And this tradition of writing continued into post-Conquest England, sometimes provi...

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