Meter and modernity in English verse, 1350-1650 /
Eric Weiskott examines the uses and misuses of three metrical forms as markers of literary periodization: alliterative meter, tetrameter, and pentameter. Rejecting the traditional division between medieval and modern, Weiskott's analysis of metrical history renegotiates the trajectories of Engl...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2021]
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| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16qjz9w |
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- English political prophecy: coordinates of form and history
- The age of prophecy
- The Ireland prophecy and the future of alliterative verse
- Tetrameter: the future of alliterative verse
- Where have all the pentameter prophecies gone?
- lliterative meter and blank verse, 1540-1667
- The rhymelessness of Piers Plowman
- Langland's meter and blank verse, 1700-2000
- Chaucer and the problem of modernity
- Chaucer's English metrical phonology: tetrameter to pentameter
- The age of pentameter