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McKenzie, Hope Bussey – 1986
Intended for college teachers and students of Anglo-Saxon literature, this paper provides an overview of the poetic devices available to poets of the fourteenth century. The paper examines how the "Pearl" poet made use of numerical symbolism and the principles of formal logic as structural devices, giving examples of these devices from…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Figurative Language, Folk Culture, Higher Education
