The Battle of Maldon by J. R. R. Tolkien

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [J.R.R. Tolkien]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2023-02-17T17:00:00+00:00

Appendices

I

‘OLD ENGLISH PROSODY’

[In ‘The Tradition of Versification in Old English’, Tolkien alludes to the belief that ‘metre was to the ancient poets a recipe independent of the pudding’. The excerpt from ‘Old English Prosody’ (MS. Tolkien A 30/2, fols. 6–20) below extends this cookery metaphor in developing a ‘recipe’ for the craft of alliterative verse, one which no doubt served Tolkien in the composition of new works like The Homecoming. The text is numbered 1–29 and dates to the early 1930s; the first lecture in a series on Old English Prosody was delivered in the Examination Schools at Oxford on 13 October 1932.]

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