Thomas A. Bredehoft's Early English Metre is a reassessment of the metrical rules for English poetry from Beowulf to Layamon. Bredehoft offers a new account of
This volume develops G. R. Russom's contributions to early English meter and style, including his fundamental reworkings and rethinkings of accepted and oft-rep
First published in 1901, as the second edition of an 1886 original, this book provides a detailed analysis of English metrical systems. The text presents an att