Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf : Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England - No Information Available

The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf

By: No Information Available

Hardcover | 2 September 1991

At a Glance

Hardcover


RRP $187.95

$166.75

11%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $41.69 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

This book argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language which the poet inherited from the traditional, oral culture of Anglo-Saxon England. The patterns of metre and alliteration exhibited in the poem were not imposed by the poet on his language, but were part of the language which he spoke, the rules of which constituted his metrical grammar. Professor Kendall investigates the constraints of syntax, metre and alliteration which govern the formal art of Beowulf. He shows how the half-lines of the poem, which are the basic units of composition, are marked by the metrical grammar for placement in the verse clause; he also establishes conditions for the presence or absence of alliteration, which enable him to say whether in any given instance the alliterative device is a mandatory function of the rules of the metrical grammar or an option exercised by the poet. Professor Kendall alters traditional views of metre; he concludes the book with a complete index of scansion according to the rules he has established.

Other Editions and Formats

Paperback

Published: 23rd November 2006

More in Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets

The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

RRP $41.95

$33.75

20%
OFF
The Aeneid : Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition - Virgil

RRP $32.99

$26.75

19%
OFF
The Iliad : Penguin Classics - Homer

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
The Iliad : Penguin Clothbound Classics - Homer

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF
The Epic of Gilgamesh : Penguin Classics - Andrew George

RRP $26.99

$20.75

23%
OFF
The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set - Homer

RRP $107.95

$74.99

31%
OFF
Paradise Lost : Penguin Classics - John Milton

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Metamorphoses : Oxford World's Classics - Ovid

RRP $19.95

$15.75

21%
OFF
Auden - Peter Ackroyd

Hardcover

$50.75

The Ode Less Travelled : Unlocking the Poet Within - Stephen Fry
The Making of a Poem : A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms - Eavan Boland
The Canterbury Tales : Penguin Classics - Geoffrey Chaucer

RRP $24.99

$18.99

24%
OFF
Red Comet : The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath - Heather Clark
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam : First and Fifth Editions - EDWARD FITZGERALD
Letters to a Young Poet : Penguin Classics - Rainer Maria Rilke

RRP $22.99

$20.75

10%
OFF