Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Allan A. Metcalf. Poetic Diction in the Old English Meters of Boethius. De Proprietatibus Litterarum, Series Practica, 50. The Hague: Mouton.

Describes the Meters poet as working from prose to poetic versions on the basis of a study of formulaic density and "exclusively" poetic words.
Area: OE