The Composition of Old English PoetryThis book offers an imaginative new way of understanding the relationship between syntax and meter in Old English verse. It challenges the view that Old English poetry is composed in loose syntax to compensate for the strict requirements of prosody, such as meter and alliteration. The author proposes a prosodical syntax to replace the syntactic laws of Hans Kuhn through its greater accuracy and wider range of application. She formulates three concise