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Tag Archives: Alliterative verse
in verse # 17 : a fair field full of folk
I could hardly call my younger self a political junkie, and I would never claim that I had a sophisticate’s understanding of poetry in elementary school. I tried, and tried again, as often as I could, to understand how poems … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliterative revival, Alliterative verse, Piers Plowman, poetry, the alliterative revival
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in verse # 16 : rime royal
In “The horrors of the German language,” chapter 8 of his Words and rules, Steven Pinker reminds us that “no one is biologically disposed to speak a particular language. The experiments called immigration and conquest, in which children master languages … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert C. Baugh, alliteration, Alliterative revival, Alliterative verse, Chaucer’s major poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer, Green Armor on Green Ground, John McWhorter, Our magnificent bastard tongue, poetry, rhyme, rime, Steven Pinker, syllabic rhyming verse, the continental form, The Oxford companion to English Literature, verse, Words and rules : the ingredients of language
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in verse # 15 : the alliterative resuscitation
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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Tagged Alliterative revival, Alliterative verse, contemporary American verse, E. V. Gordon, J. R. R. Tolkien, James Simpson, Middle English poetry, poetry, Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tess Gallagher, The alliterative Morte Arthure, verse, verse; Simon Armitage; The Alliterative Morte Arthure; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; J. R. R. Tolkien; E. V. Gordon; Alliterative revival; alliterative verse; contemporary American verse; Middle En
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