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Author(s): Eric Weiskott Date: 2021 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 0812252640   Pages: 352 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: risotor Upload Date: 9/9/2023 10:26:55 PM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the five-stress line that would become the dominant English verse form of modernity, though it was invented by Chaucer in the 1380s. While this chronology is accurate, Eric Weiskott argues, the traditional periodization of literature in modern scholarship distorts the meaning of meters as they appeared to early poets and readers. In Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3200620 Book https://rapidgator.net/file/63a1e5cddfd5...   0.00 risotor Tags: English Meter Modernity Verse Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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