A History of Old English Verse Layout

ebook Poetics on The Page · Book Cultures

By Rachel A. Burns

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Presents the first full history of Old English poetic mise-en-page, paying special attention to lineation, and arguing that the vernacular verse page is the result of engaged scribal and editorial choices. Old English verse is not laid out "like prose," but like Old English verse.

A History of Old English Verse Layout