The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf Tapa dura - 1991

Cambridge University Press, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

-Cambridge University Press, 1991-. First edition. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 5. xvi+318 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in like dustjacket. 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… Leer más

Cambridge University Press, 1991-06-28. Hardcover. Good.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Cloth in dust jacket, fine copy, jacket nearly fine. 318 pp.

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near fine. First edition, 1991, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 318pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with hint of shelfwear to spine ends, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but top edge of text block showing foxing. DJ near fine with mild rubbing and edgewear.

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