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| metrical romances of the middle ages: Ancient Engleish Metrical Romanceës Joseph Ritson, 1802 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Middle English Romances S. H. A. Shepherd, Stephen H. A. Shepherd, 1995 This Norton Critical Edition presents significant examples of one of the most important bodies of English poetry written before the Renaissance. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Scott, Chaucer, and Medieval Romance Jerome Mitchell, 2021-10-21 While the influence of Shakespeare on Sir Walter Scott has long been recognized, the importance of medieval literature in shaping his creative imagination has never before been examined in depth. Jerome Mitchell's new book fills this significant gap through a wide-ranging study of Scott's indebtedness to Chaucer and to medieval romance, especially the Middle English romances, for story-patterns, motifs, character types, style and structure, and detail. Mitchell establishes more completely and accurately than any previous critic the extent of Scott's knowledge of medieval literature. His examination of Scott's poetry, especially the long narrative poems, demonstrates their debt to Chaucer and medieval romance. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of the Waverley Novels. Scott's debt to medieval literature, Mitchell shows, was vast, profound, and elemental; it is the single most important source area for the Waverley Novels, their warp and woof. Moreover, it is probably the key to Scott's immense appeal—the very dimension which enabled him to cast an everlasting spell on his contemporaries, even on such great men as Byron and Goethe, and which has charmed generations of readers to the present day. This pioneering book, based on extensive research in Scotland, including Sir Walter Scott's personal library, sheds new light on the narrative substance and texture of Scott's poems and novels. Both the general reader and the serious student will derive from it a more informed appreciation of Scott's impressive achievement. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: A Reference Guide for English Studies Michael J. Marcuse, 1990-01-01 This ambitious undertaking is designed to acquaint students, teachers, and researchers with reference sources in any branch of English studies, which Marcuse defines as all those subjects and lines of critical and scholarly inquiry presently pursued by members of university departments of English language and literature.'' Within each of 24 major sections, Marcuse lists and annotates bibliographies, guides, reviews of research, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journals, and reference histories. The annotations and various indexes are models of clarity and usefulness, and cross references are liberally supplied where appropriate. Although cost-conscious librarians will probably consider the several other excellent literary bibliographies in print, such as James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide (Modern Language Assn. of America, 1989), larger academic libraries will want Marcuse's volume.-- Jack Bales, Mary Washington Coll. Lib., Fredericksburg, Va. -Library Journal. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Amis and Amiloun MacEdward Leach, 2001-05 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Sir Tristrem Thomas (the Rhymer), 1886 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: The Heroine of the Middle English Romances Adelaide Evans Harris, 1928 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Nine Medieval Romances of Magic Marijane Osborn, 2010-03-05 In this book, Marijane Osborn translates into modern English nine lively medieval verse romances, in a form that both reflects the original and makes the romances inviting to a modern audience. All nine tales contain elements of magic: shapeshifters, powerful fairies, trees that are portals to another world, and enchanted clothing and armor. Many of the tales also feature powerful women characters, while others include representations of “Saracens.” The tales address issues of enduring interest and concern, and also address sexuality, agency, and identity formation in unexpected ways. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Nine Medieval Romances of Magic Marijane Osborn, 2010-03-05 In this book, Marijane Osborn translates into modern English nine lively medieval verse romances, in a form that both reflects the original and makes the romances inviting to a modern audience. All nine tales contain elements of magic: shapeshifters, powerful fairies, trees that are portals to another world, and enchanted clothing and armor. Many of the tales also feature powerful women characters, while others include representations of “Saracens.” The tales address issues of enduring interest and concern, and also address sexuality, agency, and identity formation in unexpected ways. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances Susan Wittig, 2014-08-27 This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic definition and are traditionally considered to be a conglomerate of unrelated tales held together in a historical matrix of similar themes and characters. As single narratives, they are thought of as random collections of events loosely structured in chronological succession. Susan Wittig, however, offers evidence that the romances are carefully ordered (although not always consciously so) according to a series of formulaic patterns and that their structures serve as vehicles for certain essential cultural patterns and are important to the preservation of some community-held beliefs. The analysis begins on a stylistic level, and the same theoretical principles applied to the linguistic formulas of the poems also serve as a model for the study of narrative structures. The author finds that there are laws that govern the creation, selection, and arrangement of narrative materials in the romance genre and that act to restrict innovation and control the narrative form. The reasons for this strict control are to be found in the functional relationship of the genre to the culture that produced it. The deep structure of the romance is viewed as a problem-solving pattern that enables the community to mediate important contradictions within its social, economic, and mythic structures. Wittig speculates that these contradictions may lie in the social structures of kinship and marriage and that they have been restructured in the narratives in a “practical” myth: the concept of power gained through the marriage alliance, and the reconciliation of the contradictory notions of marriage for power’s sake and marriage for love’s sake. This advanced, thorough, and completely original study will be valuable to medieval specialists, classicists, linguists, folklorists, and Biblical scholars working in oral-formulaic narrative structure. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals) Dieter Mehl, 2010-10-18 First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle English Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century, and interprets a number of these romances. The emphasis is literary, on their form and dominant themes rather than source-material or language. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Five Middle English Arthurian Romances Valerie Krishna, 2014-08-13 The poems in this collection will give the reader an appreciation of both the distinctiveness and the variety of the medieval English Arthurian tradition and highlight some of this important chapter in Arthurian legend literature. The Middle English stories are different in style and structure to the later French romances, composed in poetic forms that derive from native English traditions. The Stanzaic Morte Arthur is the earliest version of the Lancelot-Guinevere story in English; The Awyntas off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyn is a serious moral poem while the story of the Avowing is a tail-rhyme romance. The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell is a strongly folkloric variation of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale and Syre Gawene and the Carle of Carlyle is an alternative version of the testing of Gawain. Originally published in 1991, the translator gives an introduction to each poem as well as a general introduction about the development of the Arthurian poetic tradition. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Imagined Romes C. David Benson, 2019-03-12 This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome—one of the most important European cities in the medieval imagination—in late Middle English poetry. Once the capital of a great pagan empire whose ruined monuments still inspired awe in the Middle Ages, Rome, the seat of the pope, became a site of Christian pilgrimage owing to the fame of its early martyrs, whose relics sanctified the city and whose help was sought by pilgrims to their shrines. C. David Benson analyzes the variety of ways that Rome and its citizens, both pre-Christian and Christian, are presented in a range of Middle English poems, from lesser-known, anonymous works to the poetry of Gower, Chaucer, Langland, and Lydgate. Benson discusses how these poets conceive of ancient Rome and its citizens—especially the women of Rome—as well as why this matters to their works. An insightful and innovative study, Imagined Romes addresses a crucial lacuna in the scholarship of Rome in the medieval imaginary and provides fresh perspectives on the work of four of the most prominent Middle English poets. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Medieval Insular Romance Judith Elizabeth Weiss, Jennifer Fellows, Morgan Dickson, 2000 Major themes explored are narratives of the disguised prince, and the reinvention of stories for different tastes and periods. These studies cover a wide chronological range and familiar and unfamiliar texts and topics. The disguised prince is a theme linking several articles, from early Anglo-Norman romances through later English ones, like King Edward and the Shepherd, to a late 16th-century recasting of the Havelok story as a Tudor celebration of Gloriana. 'Translation' in its widest sense, the way romance can reinvent stories for different tastes and periods, is anotherrunning theme; the opening introductory article considers the topic of translation theoretically, concerned to stimulate further research on how insular romances were transferred between vernaculars and literary systems, while other essays consider Lovelich's Merlin (a poem translating its Arthurian material to the poet's contemporary London milieu), Chaucer, and Breton lays in England. Contributors: JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, ROSALIND FIELD, MORGAN DICKSON, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, AMANDA HOPKINS, ARLYN DIAMOND, PAUL PRICE, W.A. DAVENPORT, RACHEL SNELL, ROGER DALRYMPLE, HELEN COOPER. Selected studies, 'Romance in Medieval England' conference. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Lancelot of the Laik Walter William Skeat, 1865 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Popular Culture in the Middle Ages Josie P. Campbell, 1986 The culture of the Middle Ages was as complex, if not as various, as our own, as the essays in this volume ably demonstrate. The essays cover a wide range of tipics, from church sculpture as advertisement to tricks and illusions as homeeconomics. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: The Evolution of Arthurian Romance i , |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: The Attitude of the Eighteenth Century in England Toward the Medieval Romance ... Leah Augusta Dennis, 1927 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: A Companion to Romance Corinne Saunders, 2008-04-15 Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages. Considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day Incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance’s special relation to women readers Comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on different periods and sub-genres Challenges the idea that the appeal of romance is exclusively escapist Draws on a wide range of specific and influential literary examples |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Medieval Literature and Civilization , 2014-01-13 These original contributions to the study of medieval literature and civilization in Britain and Scandinavia are published as a memorial to Norman Garmonsway, Chair of English at King's College, University of London, who died in 1967. The aim has been to offer to the public a book of essays which have a direct bearing upon his central academic interests and which is thus structured, in some measure, after his mind. He saw the study of the language and literature (together with the history and archaeology) of early Britain and Scandinavia as forming a single coherent discipline and this conception of unity in diversity can be glimpsed both in the range of matters which he chose to write upon and in many of his individual pieces. These essays will also appeal to the interested non-specialist, reflecting the fact that Norman Garmonsway was, despite his erudition, the very antithesis of the remote and secluded scholar. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Gawain Keith Busby, Raymond H. Thompson, 2005-11-08 Gawain: A Casebook is a collection of 12-15 classic and original essays on the hero of Arthurian legend that investigates the figure of Gawain as he appears in major medieval traditions, as well as modern literature and film. As with other volumes in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series, this casebook includes an extended introduction examining the character's evolution from the earliest tales to his most recent appearances in popular culture, as well as an extensive annotated bibliography. Students, scholars, and anyone interested in medieval legend will find a wealth of insight into the mystery of this most poignant and perplexing of Arthurian heroes. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Medieval English Wardship in Romance and Law Noël James Menuge, 2001 This title explores how wardship literature in romance may be used in studies of wardship, and how it may complement an understanding of legal history. Wardship discourse is examined in a variety of sources - legal treatises, cases, and romance. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Epic and Romance W.P. Ker, 2020-07-29 Reproduction of the original: Epic and Romance by W.P. Ker |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: The Breton Lays in Middle English Thomas C. Rumble, 1965-02 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Medievalism Michael Alexander, 2017-04-04 Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England—from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, Ruskin, and Tennyson to Pound, Tolkien, and Rowling. “Medievalism . . . takes a panoramic view of the ‘recovery’ of the Medieval in English literature, visual arts and culture. . . . Ambitious, sweeping, sometimes idiosyncratic, but always interesting.”—Rosemary Ashton, Times Literary Supplement “Deeply researched and stylishly written, Medievalism is an unalloyed delight that will instruct and amuse a wide readership.”—Edward Short, Books & Culture |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: The Evolution of Arthurian Romance from the Beginning Down to the Year 1300 James Douglas Bruce, 1928 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: The Evolution of Arthurian Romance from the Beginnings Down to the Year 1300 James Douglas Bruce, 1923 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Introduction to the Literature of Europe Henry Hallam, 1837 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries by Henry Hallam , 1837 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Introduction To The Literature Of Europe, In The Fifteenth, Sixteenth, And Seventeenth Centuries Henry Hallam, 1837 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: The Forest of Medieval Romance Corinne J. Saunders, 1993 Corinne J. Saunders's exploration of the topos of the forest, a familiar and ubiquitous motif in the literature of the middle ages, is a broad study embracing a range of medieval and Elizabethan exts from the twelft to the sixteenth centuries: the roman d'antiquite, Breton lay and courtly romance, the hagiographical tradition of the Vita Merlini and the Queste del Saint Graal, Spenser and Shakespeare. Saunders identifies the forest as a primary romance landscape, as a place of adventure, love, and spiritual vision... offers a pleasurable overview of the narrative function of the forest as a literary landscape. Based on a close comparative and theoretically non-partisan] reading of a broad range of literary texts drawn from the Europeqan canon, Saunders's study explores the continuity and transformation of an important motif in the corpus of medieval literature. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEWDr CORINNE SAUNDERSteaches in the Department of English at the University of Durham. BLURBEXTRACTED FROM TLS REVIEW] ...An immense tract, not only of medieval literature but of human experience is] engagingly introduced and presented here...Corinne Saunders considers first forests in reality (a reality which keeps breaking through in romance...). She looks also at the classical and biblical models including Virgil, Statius and Nebuchadnezzar...only then does she turn to the non-real and non-Classical, i.e. the medieval and romantic. Here she follows a clear chronological plan from twelfth to fifteenth centuries also covering] the allegorized landscape of Spenser and the lovers' woods of Arden or Athens in Shakespeare. Her text-by-text layout does justice to the variety of possibilities taken up by different authors; the forest as a place where men run mad and turn into animals, a place of voluntary suffering, a focus of significance in the Grail-quests, a lovers' bower; above all and centrally, the place where the knight is tested and defined, even (as with Perceval) created. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: The Bibliographer Henry Benjamin Wheatley, 1882 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Composition--rhetoric--literature Martha Hale Shackford, Margaret Judson, 1908 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Counsel and Strategy in Middle English Romance Geraldine Barnes, 1993 Barnes contends that `rule by counsel' is central to the ethos of Middle English romance. By examining the development of Middle English romance against its background of 13th- and 14th-century royal-baronial conflict, this book assumes a new historical perspective. Friction between Plantagenet kings and dissident barons contributed to the development of the `problem of counsel' both as an actuality and as a topos in the literature of the period. Rule by counsel, an ideal which informs medieval English government at every level, is, the authorargues, central to the ethos of Middle English romance. The procedural formula of `counsel and strategy' is tested against a number of romances: Ywain and Gawain, Havelok, Gamelyn, Athelston, a selection of nine romances from the Auchinleck manuscript, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. By selecting these narratives Geraldine Barnes is able to approach the question of counsel from a number of different angles. This is a book which will stimulate considerable interest among scholars of medieval literature. GERALDINE BARNES is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Early English Literature at the University of Sydney. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Abstracts of Dissertations for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Education Stanford University, 1929 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: Poetic Castles in Spain Diego Saglia, 2021-12-28 British culture of the Romantic period is distinguished by a protracted and varied interest in things Spanish. The climax in the publication of fictional, and especially poetical, narratives on Spain corresponds with the intense phase of Anglo-Iberian exchanges delimited by the Peninsular War (1808-14), on the one hand, and the Spanish experiment of a constitutional monarchy that lasted from 1820 until 1823, on the other. Although current scholarship has uncovered and reconstructed several foreign maps of British Romanticism - from the Orient to the South Seas - exotic European geographies have not received much attention. Spain, in particular, is one of the most neglected of these 'imaginary' Romantic geographies, even if between the 1800s and the 1820s, and beyond, it was a site of wars and invasions, the object of foreign economic interests relating to its American colonies, and a geopolitical area crucial to the European balance designed by the post-Waterloo Vienna settlement. This study considers the various ways in which Spain figured in Romantic narrative verse, recovering the discursive materials employed in fictional representation, and assessing the relevance of this activity in the context of the dominant themes and preoccupations in contemporary British culture. The texts examined here include medievalizing and chivalric fictions, Orientalist adventures set in Islamic Granada, and modern-day tales of the anti-Napoleonic campaign in the Peninsula. Recovering some of the outstanding works and issues elaborated by British Romanticism through the cultural geography of Spain, this study shows that the Iberian country was an inexhaustible source of imaginative materials for British culture at a time when its imperial boundaries were expanding and its geopolitical influence was increasing in Europe and overseas. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: The Making of the Middle Ages Marios Costambeys, Andrew J. Hamer, Martin Heale, 2007-01-01 Liverpool was founded in the Middle Ages, and as the city approaches its eight-hundredth anniversary, this book takes stock of Liverpool’s scholarly contributions to modern understanding of the period. From the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, scholars from Liverpool have made pioneering advances in fields as diverse as Celtic philology and manuscript collecting. By focusing on a local perspective, this volume presents a microcosmic view of the different building blocks of the modern construction of the Middle Ages while offering fresh insights into more universal elements of medieval culture such as pageantry and mystery plays. |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: A FIRST BOOK OF POETICS MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD,PH.D.3, 1914 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: English Literature Julian Willis Abernethy, 1916 |
| metrical romances of the middle ages: German Literature of the High Middle Ages Will Hasty, James Hardin, 2006 New essays on the first flowering of German literature, in the High Middle Ages and especially during the period 1180-1230. |
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May 20, 2025 · Metrical patterns refer to the way a poet creates rhythm by arranging stressed and unstressed syllables within a line of poetry. Along with the length of the line, metrical patterns are …
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Meter is considered a more formal writing tool, particularly as it applies to poetry. It can enhance the rhythmic quality of poetic writing. However, its purpose is to set steady timing in poetic lines …
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The piano soloist works out asymmetrical accents from interlocking metrical units while also maintaining composure in scales and running 16th notes. From New York Times Verdi worked …
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A metrical foot usually consists of two or three beats. They appear in an arrangement of unstressed and stressed syllables. For example, an iamb and trochee contain two beats while a dactyl and …
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Metrical refers to anything related to, characterized by, or based on a distinctive rhythmic or metric pattern or arrangement, often used in the context of poetry, music, phonetics, or art. It can also …
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Define metrical. metrical synonyms, metrical pronunciation, metrical translation, English dictionary definition of metrical. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or composed in poetic meter: metrical verse; five …
METRICAL Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of METRICAL is of, relating to, or composed in meter. How to use metrical in a sentence.
METRICAL | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
METRICAL meaning: 1. relating to the metre (= rhythm) of a piece of poetry: 2. relating to the meter (= rhythm) of a…. Learn more.
What Is a Metrical Pattern in Poetry? - Reference.com
May 20, 2025 · Metrical patterns refer to the way a poet creates rhythm by arranging stressed and unstressed syllables within a line of poetry. Along with the length of the line, metrical patterns are …
Meter - Examples and Definition of Meter - Literary Devices
Meter is considered a more formal writing tool, particularly as it applies to poetry. It can enhance the rhythmic quality of poetic writing. However, its purpose is to set steady timing in poetic lines …
METRICAL Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
The piano soloist works out asymmetrical accents from interlocking metrical units while also maintaining composure in scales and running 16th notes. From New York Times Verdi worked …
Meter in Poetry - Definition and Examples - Poem Analysis
A metrical foot usually consists of two or three beats. They appear in an arrangement of unstressed and stressed syllables. For example, an iamb and trochee contain two beats while a dactyl and …
What does metrical mean? - Definitions.net
Metrical refers to anything related to, characterized by, or based on a distinctive rhythmic or metric pattern or arrangement, often used in the context of poetry, music, phonetics, or art. It can also …
metrical - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jan 2, 2025 · metrical (comparative more metrical, superlative most metrical) Relating to poetic meter. Having a regular rhythm. Of or pertaining to measurement.
metrical adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage ...
Definition of metrical adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Metrical - definition of metrical by The Free Dictionary
Define metrical. metrical synonyms, metrical pronunciation, metrical translation, English dictionary definition of metrical. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or composed in poetic meter: metrical verse; five …
