The second half of the fourteenth century saw a large uptick in the production of literature in English. This essay frames metrical variety and literary experimentation in the late fourteenth century as an opportunity for intellectual history. Beginning from the assumption that verse form is never incidental to the thinking it performs, the essay seeks to test Simon Jarvis’s concept of “prosody as cognition”, formulated with reference to Pope and Wordsworth, against a different literary archive. The essay is organized into three case studies introducing three kinds of metrical practice: the half-line structure in Middle English alliterative meter, the interplay between Latin and English in Piers Plowman , and final -e in Chaucer’s pentameter. The protagonists of the three case studies are the three biggest names in Middle English literature: the Gawain poet, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer.

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早期的英国电表作为一种思维方式

十四世纪后半叶，英语文学作品出现了大幅增长。本文将十四世纪末的度量变体和文学实验框架化，以此作为知识史的机会。从假设诗歌形式永远不会影响其表现的思想开始，本文试图检验西蒙·贾维斯（Simon Jarvis）关于教皇和华兹华斯所提出的“韵律即认知”的概念，并将其与另一种文学档案库进行对比。本文分为三个案例研究，介绍了三种度量方法：中古英语计量表的半线结构，皮尔斯·普罗曼（Piers Plowman）中拉丁语和英语之间的相互作用以及乔Cha五角表中的final -e。这三个案例研究的主角是中古英语文学中的三个大人物：