单词 | alliterative revival |
释义 | > as lemmasAlliterative Revival Alliterative Revival n. (also with lower-case initials) (with the) the resurgence of poetry written in alliterative metre in England in the second half of the 14th cent.; the alliterative poems of this period, considered as a group. ΚΠ 1894 H. F. Heath in H. D. Traill Social Eng. II. viii. 541 The West was the home of conservatism—the home of archaic forms, of the alliterative revival. 1957 Speculum 32 164 Her long study of metrics and poetics here proves its value in precise and useful discriminations as she treats the forms of verse produced by the Alliterative Revival. 2003 R. Kennedy in Three Allit. Saints' Hymns p. xvii Evangelist is one of the many works of the Alliterative Revival preserved solely because of Thornton's two anthologies. < as lemmas |
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