English historical metrics . Ed. by C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 257. $59.95.

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Acknowledgements 1. Introduction C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson 2. Clashing stress in the meters of Old, Middle, and Renaissance English Thomas Cable 3. Purely metrical replacements for Kuhn's laws Geoffrey Russom 4. Domain-end phenomena and metrical templates in Old English verse C. B. McCully 5. Can Old English rhythm be reconstructed Wolfgang Obst 6. On recent theories of metrics and rhythm in Beowulf Robert P. Stockwell 7. Non-primary stress in Middle English accentual-syllabic verse Donka Minkova 8. Systematic sound-symbolism in the long alliterative line in Beowulf and Sir Gawain Marie Borroff 9. Non-aa/ax patterns in Middle English alliterative long-line verse A. T. E. Matonis 10. The prosody of Middle English Pearl and the alliterative lyric tradition Richard H. Osberg 11. Alliterative patterning and the editing of Middle English poetry Gerrit H. V. Bunt 12. Reconsidering Chaucer's prosody Gilbert Youmans 13. Chaucer Gower and the history of the hendecasyllable Martin J. Duffell 14. Libertine scribes and maidenly editors: meditations on textual criticism and metrics Hoyt N. Duggan References Index.

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