Serendipitous Failures.

R eview Es say E i g h te e n t h- C e n t u r y L i f e Volume 45, Number 2, April 2021 doi 10.1215/00982601-8902692 Copyright 2021 by Duke University Press 68 Serendipitous Failures Lisa L. Moore University of Texas at Austin Jeff Strabone. But in the essay "On the Alliterative Metre, without Rhyme, in Pierce Plowman's Visions", Percy himself misread a thirteenth- century Middle English poem attributed to Robert of Gloucester, calling it "the old alliterative and anapestic meter of the English poets ... in a barbarous age" (296). 7 3 Seward's poems of bardic nationalism influenced many of the younger male poets Strabone discusses. [Extracted from the article]