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Daily Archives: March 23, 2012

in verse # 15 : the alliterative resuscitation

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dennis Clark

When alliterative verse came roaring back to life in the mid-fourteenth century, it was more as a Wolfman than as a creature of some demented Frankenstein. In the century and a half between Laȝamon’s recasting of Wace’s Roman de Brut,[i] … Continue reading →

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