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The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf Hardcover - 1991

by Calvin B. Kendall


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This book argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language that the poet inherited from the traditional, oral culture of Anglo-Saxon England. The patterns of meter and alliteration exhibited in the poem were not imposed by the poet on his language, but were part of the language that he spoke, the rules of which constituted his metrical grammar. Professor Kendall investigates the constraints of syntax, meter and alliteration that 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.

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  • Title The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf
  • Author Calvin B. Kendall
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Date 1991-06-28
  • ISBN 9780521393256 / 0521393256
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.42 x 1.06 in (23.62 x 16.31 x 2.69 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects English language - Old English, ca. 450-1100, English language - Old English, ca. 450-1100
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90002646
  • Dewey Decimal Code 829.3
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