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The Bob-Wheel and Allied Stanza Forms in Middle English and Middle Scots Poetry

The purposes of this study were to formulate a definition of the "bob-wheel" stanza in which a number of Middle English and Middle Scots poems were written, to inventory and describe these works, with special attention to the structure of individual stanzas, to identify the genres, the periods, and the dialects in which they were written, and to trace their origin and development between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. The dissertation includes a general introduction of the topic, chapters on the influence of Latin and Romance stanzaic structure, a chronological survey of the bob-wheel poems, and a conclusion in which theories concerning the origins, development, and decline of the form are discussed.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc332279
Date08 1900
CreatorsKirkpatrick, Hugh
ContributorsLucke, Jessie Ryon, De Shazo, Marian F., Henderson, Sam H., Rich, Carroll Y.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 168 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Kirkpatrick, Hugh, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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