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The well-known reference works and analyses of Old English literature show little agreement about the definition and exemplification of style in the poetry of the period. Medieval poetry, particularly its style, is often described as ‘complex,’ ‘sophisticated,’ ‘extraordinarily compressed,’ or simply ‘as dense and difficult.’ This collection of papers, dedicated to medievalist Constance B. Hieatt, considers the prosody and poetics of Old and early Middle English. The contributors concern themselves with the details of how poems and their metre work and employ a variety of approaches, including traditional text analysis, historiographical consideration of the works and responses to them, linguistics-based analysis, application of pragmatic theory, computer analysis, and a comparative-literature perspective. The writers suggest both implicitly and explicitly that whatever cultural constructions are relevant to the poetry of Anglo

Prosody and Poetics in the Early Middle Ages

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 12/15/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781487585259, 978-1487585259
      ISBN10: 148758525X
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      Book Synopsis

      The well-known reference works and analyses of Old English literature show little agreement about the definition and exemplification of style in the poetry of the period. Medieval poetry, particularly its style, is often described as ‘complex,’ ‘sophisticated,’ ‘extraordinarily compressed,’ or simply ‘as dense and difficult.’ This collection of papers, dedicated to medievalist Constance B. Hieatt, considers the prosody and poetics of Old and early Middle English. The contributors concern themselves with the details of how poems and their metre work and employ a variety of approaches, including traditional text analysis, historiographical consideration of the works and responses to them, linguistics-based analysis, application of pragmatic theory, computer analysis, and a comparative-literature perspective. The writers suggest both implicitly and explicitly that whatever cultural constructions are relevant to the poetry of Anglo

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