Early English Poetic Culture and Meter

The Influence of G. R. Russom

Edited by M. J. Toswell Edited by Lindy Brady

Book cover: Early English Poetic Culture and Meter

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(October 2016)

ISBN: 9781580442428

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~ENG~New approaches on early English poetic culture from the perspective of meter and poetic style.


This volume develops G. R. Russom’s contributions to early English meter and style, including his fundamental reworkings and rethinkings of accepted and oft-repeated mantras, including his word-foot theory, concern for the late medieval context for alliterative meter, and the linguistics of punctuation and translation as applied to Old English texts. Ten eminent scholars from across the field take up Russom’s ideas to lead readers in new and exciting directions.

Foreword by Thomas Cable Introduction by Lindy Brady and M. J. Toswell Secg betsta and oegn betstan: A Reconsideration of the Short Verses in Beowulf by Jun Terasawa Particle Verses in Old English and Eddic Poetry by R. D. Fulk Old English Verse Punctuation and Linguistic Theory by Daniel Donoghue Boars and the Geats in Beowulf by Lindy Brady New Applications for Word-Foot Theory by Megan E. Hartman The Old English Metrical Psalms: Practice and Theory of Translation by Haruko Momma Polyptoton in Old English Texts by M. J. Toswell Confessio et Oratio: An Unrecognized Old English Confessional Poem by Thomas A. Bredehoft Alliterative Meter after 1450: The Vision of William Banastre by Eric Weiskott Publications of Geoffrey Richard Russom, Foreword by Thomas Cable
Introduction by Lindy Brady and M. J. Toswell

Secg betsta
and ðegn betstan: A Reconsideration of the Short Verses in Beowulf by Jun Terasawa
Particle Verses in Old English and Eddic Poetry by R. D. Fulk
Old English Verse Punctuation and Linguistic Theory by Daniel Donoghue
Boars and the Geats in Beowulf by Lindy Brady
New Applications for Word-Foot Theory by Megan E. Hartman
The Old English Metrical Psalms: Practice and Theory of Translation by Haruko Momma
Polyptoton in Old English Texts by M. J. Toswell

Confessio et Oratio
: An Unrecognized Old English Confessional Poem by Thomas A. Bredehoft
Alliterative Meter after 1450: The Vision of William Banastre by Eric Weiskott
Publications of Geoffrey Richard Russom

  • Edited by M. J. Toswell
  • Edited by Lindy Brady