Sutton who?
J.A. Burrow, 21 January 1988
Old English Meter and Linguistic Theory
by Geoffrey Russom.
Cambridge, 178 pp., £25, August 1987,0 521 33168 4 Show More
by Geoffrey Russom.
Cambridge, 178 pp., £25, August 1987,
“... it has the quality that one looks for in classics. I know few better demonstrations of this than Geoffrey Russom’s Old English Meter [sic Cambridge University Press] and Linguistic Theory. All surviving Old English poetry (about 30,000 lines in total) employs essentially the same alliterative line: but no native discussions survive to record how the ... ”
