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humanist Giovanni Pontano in the 15th century.
Alliteration is used in the
alliterative verse of Old
English poems like Beowulf,
Middle English poems like Sir...
- In prosody,
alliterative verse is a form of
verse that uses
alliteration as the prin****l
device to
indicate the
underlying metrical structure, as opposed...
- The
Alliterative Revival is a term
adopted by
literary historians to
refer to the
resurgence of
poetry using the
alliterative verse form in
Middle English...
- The
Alliterative Morte Arthure is a 4346-line
Middle English alliterative poem,
retelling the
latter part of the
legend of King Arthur.
Dating from about...
- Germanic-speaking
peoples probably shared a
common poetic tradition,
alliterative verse, and
later Germanic peoples also
shared legends originating in...
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Cleanness (Middle English: Clannesse) is a
Middle English alliterative poem
written in the late 14th century. Its
unknown author,
designated the Pearl...
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Scandinavian culture. Old
Norse poetry developed from the
common Germanic alliterative verse, and as such has many
commonalities with Old English, Old Saxon...
- stanzas, each of
which can last for over ten pages. The
first poem is in
alliterative verse, and the
second is in
rhyming couplets. Both
exist in two versions...
- poem in the
tradition of
Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182
alliterative lines. It is one of the most
important and most
often translated works...
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Green Knight is a late 14th-century
chivalric romance in
Middle English alliterative verse. The
author is unknown; the
title was
given centuries later. It...
