The Lost Tradition: Essays on Middle English Alliterative PoetryFour Courts Press, 2000 - 253 pages Four stresses, a line broken in two by a caesura, and a pattern of alliteration linking the two half-lines were features of the staple manner of Anglo-Saxon verse. And this tradition of writing continued into post-Conquest England, sometimes providing a distinctive alternative to rhymed or stanzaic verse, sometimes coexisting with it, occasionally a little uneasily. 'But trusteth wel, I am a Southren man; I kan nat geeste 'rum, ram, ruf', by lettre ...' says Chaucer's Parson, parodying the manner of alliterative verse and hinting at its provinciality. Much of it was, in fact, written in the west and north of England. The late efflorescence of alliterative writing in fourteenth-century and early fifteenth-century England is remarkable for its range and quality, and this is the focus of this collection of essays, five of which have not been published before. There are four essays on some of the lyrics preserved in London, British Library MS Harley 2253, two on Winner and Waster and The Parlement of the Thre Ages, both of which are preserved in London, British Library MS Additional 31042, and two on poems from London, British Library MS Cotton Nero A. x - one on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and contemporary knighthood, and one on Patience and the question of obedience to authority. One essay focuses on an incident in Piers Plowman dealing with the lawlessness of the gentry. Another looks at Pierce the Ploughman's Crede and Lollard attitudes to written texts. And another considers the clerical agenda of St Erkenwald and the writing of history. Two related texts - Richard the Redeles and Mum and the Sothsegger - are analysed, along with Gower's Cronica Tripartita, as verdicts on the reign of Richard II and as expressions of the determination of poets to comment on political affairs in contexts which sought to silence them. Finally, what may have been the last great English alliterative poem, Scotish Ffeilde, is considered in relation to other contemporary poems on the Battle of Flodden of 1513. |
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... reason for being there , so casually introduced , is easy to overlook : ... I went to the wodde my werdes to dreghe , In - to be schawes my - selfe a shotte me to gete At ane hert or ane hynde , happen as it myghte ... ( 3-5 ) It is ...
... reason for being there , so casually introduced , is easy to overlook : ... I went to the wodde my werdes to dreghe , In - to be schawes my - selfe a shotte me to gete At ane hert or ane hynde , happen as it myghte ... ( 3-5 ) It is ...
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... reason to ponder their implications . In fact , he has more reason , for he has already seen , in his own killing of the stag , an example of the way in which death can in an unwary moment destroy something in the splendid fullness of ...
... reason to ponder their implications . In fact , he has more reason , for he has already seen , in his own killing of the stag , an example of the way in which death can in an unwary moment destroy something in the splendid fullness of ...
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... reason ( ob quod ) , that the king and his justices have been mocked , that the bailiffs of Ipswich , John Hirp and John de Preston , were brought before the authorities to account for their failure to intervene in these events and ...
... reason ( ob quod ) , that the king and his justices have been mocked , that the bailiffs of Ipswich , John Hirp and John de Preston , were brought before the authorities to account for their failure to intervene in these events and ...
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 9 |
An Old Mans Prayer and Bastard Feudalism | 15 |
A Reading of Satire on | 27 |
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