Early English Poetic Culture and Meter: The Influence of G. R. Russom

200 Pages·2016·2.587 MB·English

by  M. Jane Toswell, Lindy Brady (eds.)

Early English Poetic Culture and Meter
FESTSCHRIFTEN, OCCASIONAL PAPERS, AND LECTURES
Volume XXV
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Early English Poetic Culture and Meter
The Influence of G. R. Russom
Edited by
M. J. Toswell and Lindy Brady
Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures
MEDIEVAL INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo
Copyright © 2016 by the Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Toswell, M. J., editor. | Brady, Lindy, editor.
Title: Early English poetic culture and meter : the influence of G. R. Russom
/ Edited By M. J. Toswell and Lindy Brady.
Description: Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan
University, 2016. | Series: Studies in medieval and early modern culture |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016032463| ISBN 9781580442428 (paperbound : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781580442435 (eISBN)
Subjects: LCSH: English poetry--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and
criticism. | English poetry--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Versification. |
Russom, Geoffrey.
Classification: LCC PR203 .E37 2016 | DDC 829/.1009--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016032463
ISBN: 9781580442428
eISBN: 9781580442435
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Geoffrey Richard Russom
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Contents
Foreword ix
Thomas Cable
Introduction 1
Lindy Brady and M. J. Toswell
Secg betsta and ðegn betstan:
A Reconsideration of the Short Verses in Beowulf 9
Jun Terasawa
Particle Verses in Old English and Eddic Poetry 21
R. D. Fulk
Old English Verse Punctuation and Linguistic Theory 39
Daniel Donoghue
Boars and the Geats in Beowulf 61
Lindy Brady
New Applications for Word-Foot Theory 73
Megan E. Hartman
The Old English Metrical Psalms:
Practice and Theory of Translation 93
Haruko Momma
viii CONTENTS
Polyptoton in Old English Texts 111
M. J. Toswell
Confessio et Oratio:
An Unrecognized Old English Confessional Poem 131
Thomas A. Bredehoft
Alliterative Meter after 1450:
The Vision of William Banastre 149
Eric Weiskott
Publications of Geoffrey Richard Russom 181