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A history of Old English meter. This book focuses on a group of late Old English metrical prayers, in particular the vernacular translations of the Paris Psalter psalms and the paraphrases of Latin Credo, Pater noster and Gloria Patri.

A history of Old English meter. It outlines the Anglo-Latin background of the poems and combines metrical analysis with philological reading of the texts in their manuscript context. Looking at all these aspects of the poems, the book seeks to readdress the questions concerning the nature of Old English metre, the range of Anglo-Saxon verse forms and the boundaries of its poetic corpus.

Now the oldest English texts have a literary history for thetwenty-first century. One of the chief virtues of A History ofOld English Literature is the rich elaboration of contexts,extending from the manuscripts to the literary and intellectualworld of Anglo-Saxon England, to the early modern criticism, and tothe most recent critical reception. Professor Daniel Donoghue,HarvardUniversity.

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Book Description: InA History of Old English Meter, R. 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. eISBN: 978-1-5128-0222-1.

Descrição: Old English Meter Studies from Historical Perspective. Middle Old Testament. Middle Old Testament History. Descripción: A study of the time of the kings, including I and II Samuel, I and II Kings, and I and II Chronicles to the reign of King Josiah Latter Old Testament History.

Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses literature written in Old English, in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066. Cædmon's Hymn", composed in the 7th century, according to Bede, is often considered as the oldest surviving poem in English.

Old English Meter Studies from Historical Perspective. hospitality I wish to thank friends and colleagues who are or were in Denmark, and particularly Graham and Ann Caie, H. James and Susan Jensen, and Steen Schousboe and Jette Hollnder.