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A History of Old English Meter (Hardcover)
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A History of Old English Meter (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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In A History of Old English Meter, R. D. Fulk offers a wide-ranging
reference on Anglo-Saxon meter. Fulk examines the evidence for
chronological and regional variation in the meter of Old English
verse, studying such linguistic variables as the treatment of West
Germanic parasite vowels, contracted vowels, and short syllables
under secondary and tertiary stress, as well as a variety of
supposed dialect features. Fulk's study of such variables points
the way to a revised understanding of the role of syllable length
in the construction of early Germanic meters and furnishes criteria
for distinguishing dialectal from poetic features in the language
of the major Old English poetic codices. On this basis, it is
possible to draw conclusions about the probable dialect origins of
much verse, to delineate the characteristics of at least four
discrete periods in the development of Old English meter, and with
some probability to assign to them many of the longer poems, such
as Genesis A, Beowulf, and the works of Cynewulf. A History of Old
English Meter will be of interest to scholars of Anglo-Saxon,
historians of the English language, Germanic philologists, and
historical linguists.
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