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Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson; 2.Clashing stress in the meters of Old, Middle, and Renaissance English ThomasCable; 3. Purely metrical replacements for Kuhn's laws Geoffrey Russom; 4.Domain-end phenomena and metrical templates in Old English verse C. B.McCully; 5. Can Old English rhythm be reconstructed Wolfgang Obst; 6. Onrecent theories of metrics and rhythm in Beowulf Robert P. Stockwell; 7.Non-primary stress in Middle English accentual-syllabic verse Donka Minkova;8. Systematic sound-symbolism in the long alliterative line in Beowulf andSir Gawain Marie Borroff; 9. Non-aa/ax patterns in Middle Englishalliterative long-line verse A. T. E. Matonis; 10. The prosody of MiddleEnglish Pearl and the alliterative lyric tradition Richard H. Osberg; 11.Alliterative patterning and the editing of Middle English poetry Gerrit H. V.Bunt; 12. Reconsidering Chaucer's prosody Gilbert Youmans; 13. Chaucer Gowerand the history of the hendecasyllable Martin J. Duffell; 14. Libertinescribes and maidenly editors: meditations on textual criticism and metricsHoyt N. Duggan; References; Index.