Prosody and Poetics in the Early Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of C.B. Hieatt

by M.J. Toswell

Book Overview

The well-known reference works and analyses of Old English literature show little agreement about the definition and exemplification of style in the poetry of the period. Medieval poetry, particularly its style, is often described as 'complex, ' 'sophisticated, ' 'extraordinarily compressed, ' or simply 'as dense and difficult.' This collection of papers, dedicated to medievalist Constance B. Hieatt, considers the prosody and poetics of Old and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 148758525X
• ISBN13: 9781487585259
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"