The importance of metrical analysis to the broad work of textual criticism and literary analysis cannot be overstated. In the thirty years since the publication of R. D. Fulk’s A History of Old English Meter, metrical theory has been brought to bear on questions of poetic style, dating and literary history, linguistics and language history, editing practice, manuscript analysis and scribal practice. The essays in this collection include contributions from both new scholars and established metrists. They focus on the application of metrical study to literary criticism and manuscript studies, engaging with current debate and offering new perspectives on the crucial role of metre to Old English scholarship.
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Dedication
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Preface
- A Note on the CLASP Project
- Abbreviations
- Tables and Figures
- List of Appendices to Individual Contribution
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Metre as an Editorial Concern in The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, with Particular Reference to the Old English Soul and Body Poems
- Chapter 2. The Dream of the Rood: "not on the whole metrically deficient"?
- Introduction
- Ruthwell Cross, First titulus
- Ruthwell Cross, Second titulus
- A3 Verses
- Hypermetric Verses
- Some Obstreperous Verses
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- ON-VERSES
- REMAINDERS
- OFF-VERSES
- HYPERMETRIC
- REMAINDER
- Chapter 3. On the Metre of Exodus
- Chapter 4. The Battle of Maldon and the Vengeance of Offa
- Three Problems
- Towards the Summit
- The New View
- Chapter 5. Rhyme and Reason in The Battle of Maldon
- Introduction
- Types of Rhyme in Maldon
- Select Passages from the Poem with Commentary, Illustrating the Poet’s Use of Rhyme and Half-rhyme
- Arriving at the Battlefield (Maldon, 2-16)
- Byrhtnoth Makes His Preparations (Maldon, 17-24)
- The Viking Messenger (Maldon, 25-41)
- Byrhtnoth’s Reply to the Messenger (Maldon, 41-61)
- The Tide Comes In (Maldon, 62-67)
- The Armies Line Up On the Opposing Banks of the River Channel (Maldon, 68-71)
- The Tide Goes Out (Maldon, 72-73)
- Wulfstan Holds the Bridge (Maldon, 74-88)
- Byrhtnoth in His Pride Allows the Vikings to Cross the Bridge (Maldon, 89-95)
- A Comment on Ofermod, and Some Conclusions
- Chapter 6. Hypermetric Narrative in the Old English Daniel
- Chapter 7. Elene 582-89 : Hypermetrics, Revelation, and Judgment
- Chapter 8. Single Half-Lines and Heavy Hypermetric Verses in Maxims I Reconsidered
- Unambiguous Single Half-Lines in Maxims I
- Heavy Hypermetric Verses in Maxims I
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Anaphora and Stylistic Flexibility in the Metrical Charms
- Repetition and Irregularity in the Metrical Charms
- Anaphora and Single Half-Lines in the Charms
- Anaphora and the Style of the Charms
- Chapter 10. Struggling tofind the Point: The Scratched Metrical Pointing of Guthlac A in the Exeter Book
- Chapter 11. Mind the Gap: Inter-Word Spacing and Metrical Organization in Old English Verse
- Methods and Parameters
- Data Analysis
- Conclusions: Some Hypotheses and Suggestions
- Chapter 12. Metre vs Rhythm: John C. Pope Reads Sievers
- Introduction
- John Collins Pope Papers
- Pope on Sievers’s Altgermanische Metric
- Pope on the Rhythm of Old English Poetry
- Pope on Verse, Metre, Rhythm
- Chapter 13. The Mystery of Old English Type A2k
- Appendix 1. Alan Bliss: 1921-1985
- Bibliography of Works by Alan Bliss on Old English Metre in Chronological Order
- Appendix 2. Some Corrections to Alan Bliss's Indices to The Metre of Beowulf, Together with His Last Known Views on the Metre of the Poem
- Appendix 3. A Glossary of Metrical Terms
- Select Bibliography and Further Reading
- Index
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