English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic
tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English
poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth century,
when alliterative poetry ceased to be composed. Eric Weiskott draws
on the study of meter to challenge the traditional division of
medieval English literary history into Old English and Middle
English periods. The two halves of the alliterative tradition,
divided by the Norman Conquest of 1066, have been studied
separately since the nineteenth century; this book uses the history
of metrical form and its cultural meanings to bring the two halves
back together. In combining literary history and metrical
description into a new kind of history he calls 'verse history',
Weiskott reimagines the historical study of poetics.
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