Alliterative Narrative Poetry: The Control of the Medium

Critical approaches to alliterative poetry can and do include all the approaches imposed on literature in general. But to these must be added approaches particular to the fact that we confront a body of literature defined by a distinctive, some would say peculiar, metrical form. Alliterative poetry...

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Main Author: Finlayson, John (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press 1988
In: Traditio
Year: 1988, Volume: 44, Pages: 419-451
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