Editing Alliterative verse (section)

=== Types of Middle English alliterative verse ===
Middle English (and Scots) alliterative verse fell into several typical categories. There were the Arthurian romances, such as [[Layamon's Brut|Layamon's ''Brut'']], the ''[[Alliterative Morte Arthure|Alliterative Morte Arthur]]'', ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'',  ''[[The Awntyrs off Arthure|Awyntyrs off Arthure]]'', ''[[The Avowing of Arthur]]'', ''[[Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle]]'', ''[[The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain]]'', and ''Charlemagne and Ralph the Collier''. There were accounts of warfare, like the ''Siege of Jerusalem'' and ''Scotish Feilde''. There were poems devoted to Biblical stories, Christian virtues, and religious allegory, and religious instruction, like ''[[Cleanness]]'', ''Patience'', ''Pearl'', ''[[The Three Dead Kings]]'', ''[[The Castle of Perseverance]]'', the [[York Mystery Plays|York]], [[Chester Mystery Plays|Chester]], and other municipal [[mystery play]]s, ''[[St. Erkenwald (poem)|St. Erkenwald]]'', the ''Pistil of Swete Susan'', or ''Pater Noster''. And there were a variety of poems falling in a space that ranged from allegory to satire to political commentary, including ''[[Piers Plowman]]'', ''[[Wynnere and Wastoure|Winnere and Wastoure]]'', ''[[Mum and the Sothsegger]],'' ''The Parlement of Three Ages'', ''The Buke of the Howlat, [[Richard the Redeless]]'', ''[[Jack Upland]]'', ''[[Friar Daw's Reply]]'', ''Jack Uplands Rejoinder, The Blacksmiths, [[Tournament of Tottenham|The Tournament of Tottenham]], Sum Practysis of Medecyne'', and ''The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Women and the Wedo''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Middle English Alliterative Poetry |url=https://mediakron.bc.edu/alliterativepoetry/timeline-of-poems |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=mediakron.bc.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=McClure |first=J. Derrick |date=January 2008 |title=The Prosody of the Middle Scots Alliterative Poems |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/flor.25.009 |journal=Florilegium |language=en |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=193–216 |doi=10.3138/flor.25.009 |issn=0709-5201|url-access=subscription }}</ref>