TY - BOOK ED - Project Muse, ED - Project Muse. TI - Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre / T2 - Medieval media and culture SN - 9781802700251 AV - PE253 .T735 2022 PY - 2022/// CY - Baltimore, Maryland PB - Project Muse KW - Rhetoric, Medieval KW - English language KW - Old English, ca. 450-1100 KW - Versification KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references and index; Open Access N2 - The importance of metrical analysis to the broad work of textual criticism and literary analysis cannot be overstated. In the thirty years since the publication of R. D. Fulk's A History of Old English Meter, metrical theory has been brought to bear on questions of poetic style, dating and literary history, linguistics and language history, editing practice, manuscript analysis and scribal practice. The essays in this collection include contributions from both new scholars and established metrists. They focus on the application of metrical study to literary criticism and manuscript studies, engaging with current debate and offering new perspectives on the crucial role of metre to Old English scholarship UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/99872/ ER -