"Alliterative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The Early English alliterative romance, entitled the Morte Arthure, published from a manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral by Mr. Halliwell,[3] is considered by Sir F. Madden to be the veritable gest of Arthure composed by Huchowne. An examination of this romance does not lead me to the ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... from the old English epic of Beowulf, shows the language in another aspect. Here, as in all poetry, archaic forms abound, and the syntax is intentionally involved. It is written in the old alliterative rhythm, ...
— Early Britain - Anglo-Saxon Britain • Grant Allen |
