What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were w

A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.

Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative f

In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet’s workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their

What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twe