From the Introduction: The literary materials of the study are chosen from the works of the poets and the collections of poetry that were regarded in their own

"In the hundred years since the last major history of English metre was published, dramatic changes have occurred in both the way that poets versify in English

Old English Metre offers an essential framework for the critical analysis of metrical structures and interpretations in Old English literature. Jun Terasawa's c

Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's