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The Alliterative Revival is a term adopted by literary historians to refer to the resurgence of poetry using the alliterative verse form in Middle English between c. 1350 and 1500. Alliterative verse was the traditional verse form of Old English poetry; the last known alliterative poem prior to the Revival was Layamon's Brut, which dates from around 1190.

Scholarly opinion has been divided on whether the Alliterative Revival represented a conscious revival of an old artistic tradition, or merely signified that despite the tradition continuing in some form between 1200 and 1350, no poems survived in written form. Major works of the Revival include William Langland's Piers Plowman, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and the works of the Gawain Poet: Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Cleanness, and Patience.

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Alliterative Revival

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The Alliterative Revival is a term adopted by literary historians to refer to the resurgence of poetry using the alliterative verse form in Middle English...

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Alliterative verse

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Germanic-language alliterative verse. Unlike in other Germanic languages, where alliterative verse has largely fallen out of use (except for deliberate revivals, like...

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Cleanness

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Cleanness (Middle English: Clannesse) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the Pearl...

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Revival of the Hebrew language

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The revival of the Hebrew language took place in Europe and Palestine toward the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century, through which the...

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse. The author is unknown; the title was given centuries later. It...

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Gawain Poet

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the "Alliterative Revival" of which these works are a significant part, cannot be established with any precision. It is assumed that the revival began...

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Alexander Romance

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lines written in alliterative verse. It was probably written between 1340 and 1370, soon before the beginning of the Alliterative Revival, of which it is...

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Wynnere and Wastoure

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in a four-stress unrhymed alliterative line, usually thought to be a late development, or perhaps revival, of the alliterative line used in Old English...

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Bob and wheel

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Princeton University Press, 1993. 143. [1] Turville-Petre, Thorlac. The Alliterative Revival. Boydell & Brewer, 1977. ISBN 9780859910194. p. 62-64 "Bob-and-wheel"...

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Mum and the Sothsegger

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Sothsegger is an anonymous fifteenth century alliterative English poem, written during the "Alliterative Revival." It is ostensibly an example of medieval...

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Heroic verse

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of harping. — Beowulf: An Imitative Translation, lines 86-90 The Alliterative Revival (mainly of the 14th century) likely constituted a continuation (though...

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The Three Dead Kings

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) Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages: An Anthology, London: Routledge, 1989, pp. 148 – 157. Turville-Petre, T. The Alliterative Revival, Boydell...

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1839 in literature

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a residuum of insipidity... Turville-Petre, Thorlac (1977). The Alliterative Revival. Woodbridge: Brewer. pp. 126–129. ISBN 0-85991-019-9. Burrow, J....

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1839 in poetry

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Rupert Hart-Davis. pp. 172–208. Turville-Petre, Thorlac (1977). The Alliterative Revival. Woodbridge: Brewer. pp. 126–129. ISBN 0-85991-019-9. Burrow, J....

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Guinevere

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Europe include both Gaynour and Waynour (Waynor[e]) in the English poems Alliterative Morte Arthure and The Awntyrs off Arthure, Genure (Gaynor) in the Stanzaic...

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Beowulf

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poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works...

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King Arthur

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EETS and Oxford University Press). Alliterative Morte Arthure translated and retold in modern English alliterative prose, from Lincoln Cathedral MS 91...

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Battle of Camlann

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works are based fairly closely on Geoffrey, including the Middle English Alliterative Morte Arthure, written around 1400. The chronicle tradition typically...

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Norse mythology

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Originally composed and transmitted orally, skaldic poetry utilizes alliterative verse, kennings, and several metrical forms. The Prose Edda presents...

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Young Miracleman

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similarly reinvented Captain Marvel. Freddie Freeman became the similarly alliterative Dicky Dauntless; however Dauntless did not retain Freeman's injuries...

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