LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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A return to reading poetry from the 11th and 12th centuries
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The influence of southern courtly poets writing in French and Latin
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A surge in English nationalism
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The introduction to new poetic forms during the Norman invasion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why is the alliterative revival important? The alliterative revival was an important period of time during which poets returned to alliterative verse, the meter in which the first English-language poems were written. It provides scholars with insights into how poetry was changing during the 13th-15th centuries.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Old English epic poem Beowulf is written in alliterative verse. In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal structuring device to unify lines of poetry, as opposed to other devices such as rhyme.
Detailed explanation-4: -Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect.