Middle English Alliterative Poetry: A Canonical Study

FAIN: RO-20434-83

Temple University (Philadelphia, PA 19122-6003)
Ann T. Matonis (Project Director: April 1982 to October 1990)

To support a research project that will investigate and annotate the alliterative, metrical, and stylistic features of Middle English alliterative poetry. The study will locate, analyze, and compare some thirty features in more than 60,000 lines of poetry with the aid of a microprocessor computer system.