English Alliterative Verse

This revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition sheds new light on poems from Beowulf to Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and challenges the idea that the alliterative tradition falls into two halves divided by the Norman Conquest.

Aceasta revizuire a istoriei de 900 de ani a unei traditii poetice majore arunca o noua lumina asupra poeziilor de la Beowulf la Piers Plowman si Sir Gawain si Cavalerul Verde si contesta ideea ca traditia aliterativa se imparte in doua jumatati impartite de normand Cucerire.