Old and middle english prosody norton

Kaluza, Max. Translated by A. London: George Allen, English translation of Englische Metrik in historischer Entwicklung dargestellt Berlin: Felber, Lehmann, Winfred P. The Development of Germanic Verse Form. Austin: University of Texas Press, A focus on the linguistic determinants of metrical artifice and their changes over time. Pearsall, Derek. Old English and Middle English Poetry. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Pope, John C. Eight Old English Poems.

Revised by R. New York: Norton, Saintsbury, George. London: Macmillan, Lawrence, D. Masters, E. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W. Roosevelt, T. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.

Wells, H. Make sure you understand what is meant by alliterative verse and can identify parts of the Old English alliterative lines in Caedmon's hymn NA and in the Poet's Song in Heorot selection from Beowulf NA What is meant by the Old English or Anglo-Saxon period?

Know what is meant by the term "dream vision" see below. Compare the two translations of the poem: E. Donaldson's prose translation, which appeared in the Norton Anthology up until the 8th edition , and Alfred David's alliterative verse translation in the 9th edition of the anthology Which do you prefer, and why?

For your convenience, both translations are included in a. PDF file, 5 pp. Who are the speakers in the poem? Is the person saying "I" the same throughout the poem?

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