10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VOCALIC ALLITERATION»
Discover the use of
vocalic alliteration in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
vocalic alliteration and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Alliterative Poetry in Middle English
We saw in the previous chapter that vocalic alliteration in O.E. poetry was usually
on different vowels, but in The Brut and The Bestiary there is manifest the
tendency to alliterate on identical vowels. This is anticipatory of the practice in the
later ...
2
Old English Metre: An Introduction
An Introduction Jun Terasawa. ænne ofer yðe umborwesende (Beo 46) alone
over waves being-a-child [(they sent him forth) alone across the waves being still
a child] As we see from the instances above, vocalic alliteration can take place ...
3
Chaucer and Langland: Historical and Textual Approaches
In lines with hypernormative vocalic alliteration, because the differentiations
between the extremes of heaviest and most lightly stressed alliterating syllables
can be so fine, there are special effects. The vocalic beginnings of words not ...
4
Will's Visions of Piers Plowman, Do-well, Do-better, and Do-best
Such are exact alliteration of single consonant sounds or consonant groups; or of
a single consonant sound with that of the first element of a consonant group;
vocalic alliteration; and alliteration of a vowel with an aspirated vowel. Alliterating
a ...
William Langland, George Kane, Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson, 1988
5
Visible Song: Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse
S. cymeS can only be preserved if the letter s is pronounced with a vocalic
alliteration and the rune-name, sigel, is not.33 It is difficult to avoid concluding
that one set of letters must be silent, and the preponderance of evidence
suggests that ...
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, 1990
6
Textual Histories: Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
... cross alliteration, where the vocalic alliteration is supplemented by a
secondary alliteration on '-man' and 'manega.' Likewise in line 7, the second
element of /Ethelwold's name provides the alliterating syllable, while the st-
cluster causes the ...
Thomas A. Bredehoft, 2001
7
Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse
... as for Ælfric. thus, the second quoted line presumably has vocalic alliteration
involving the preposition 'uppan' (although alliteration linking 'mann' and 'man'
might conceivably be possible); the sixth line either has AA-alliteration ('mihte'
and ...
Thomas A. Bredehoft, 2009
8
Klaeber's Beowulf, Fourth Edition
See also Lang. §26.10. The name is consistently spelt with initial h (4x), but in the
three instances in which it is in alliterating position, vocalic alliteration is required.
The Latin names Heliseus, Holofernus, Herodes, Hebreos alliterate on a ...
R.D. Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, John D Niles, 2008
9
Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg
The name is consistently spelt with initial h (4×), but in the three instances in
which it is in alliterating position, vocalic alliteration is required. The Latin names
Heliseus, Holofernus, Herodes, Hebreos alliterate on a vowel in OE verse
because ...
Friedrich Klaeber, Robert Dennis Fulk, Robert E. Bjork, 2008
10
Historical Linguistics and Philology
We cannot, therefore, use this feature as evidence for a non-Western origin of our
poem. (2) Alliteration on ar(e)(n) is also infrequent (as is vocalic alliteration
generally), but unmistakably present; the clearest instances are lines 3332 and
4215.
