{"product_id":"a-history-of-old-english-rachel-a-burns-9781802704440","title":"A History of Old English Verse Layout: Poetics on the Page","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis study presents the first full history of Old English poetic \u003cem\u003emise-en-page\u003c\/em\u003e, drawing its approach from the fields of literary criticism, art history, metrics, palaeography, and the history of the book. Paying special attention to lineation, this book surveys the layout of poetry from the earliest Latin writings in England, to modern editions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It argues that the vernacular verse page is not, as has often been assumed, merely constrained by linguistic status. Rather, the layout of Old English poetry is shown to be the result of engaged scribal and editorial choices, and one of a set of tools used to meet readers' needs and to express identities. Old English verse is not laid out \"like prose,\" but like Old English verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel A. Burns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1802704442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781802704440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ARC Humanities Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Rachel A. Burns","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48114139365631,"sku":"9781802704440","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82abdc9c-3bf1-440e-ba01-79553524d788.jpg?v=1769619352","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-history-of-old-english-rachel-a-burns-9781802704440","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}