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"Hard it is to stir my tongue" : raiding the Otherworld for the elixir of poetry
- Title
- "Hard it is to stir my tongue" : raiding the Otherworld for the elixir of poetry / Clive Tolley.
- Author
- Tolley, Clive
- Publication
- Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 272 pages : black and white illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Where does poetic inspiration come from? This has been a puzzle for as long as poetry has been around. This book surveys some of the ways poets have thought of their craft, focusing particularly on medieval sources which see the Otherworld as a fastness of poetic inspiration, whence it has to be raided."--Page 4 of cover.
- Series Statement
- FF communications, 0014-5815 ; no. 317
- Uniform Title
- FF communications ; no. 317.
- Subject
- To 1500
- Poetry > History and criticism
- Poetry, Medieval > History and criticism
- Poetry, Ancient > History and criticism
- Inspiration in literature
- Mythology, Welsh, in literature > To 1500
- Mythology, Norse, in literature > To 1500
- Poetry, Medieval
- Poetry, Ancient
- Mythology, Welsh, in literature
- Mythology, Norse, in literature
- Poetry
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-262) and index.
- Language (note)
- Text in English, with translated excerpts of prose and poetry from several European languages.
- Contents
- Introduction: the poet's craft -- Scandinavia: Óðinn's booty -- Wales: the cauldron of poetry -- Ireland: the spring of knowledge -- Northumbria: the kenotic inversion of tradition -- Greece: the metaleptic Otherworld -- Finland-Karelia: the chest of words -- Siberia: making the irreal real -- England of the Romantics: wresting the evanescent from oblivion -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-1246
- ISBN
- 9514111400
- 9789514111402
- LCCN
- 2019455128
- 9789514111402
- OCLC
- 1121085936
- Author
- Tolley, Clive, author.
- Title
- "Hard it is to stir my tongue" : raiding the Otherworld for the elixir of poetry / Clive Tolley.
- Publisher
- Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- FF communications, 0014-5815 ; no. 317FF communications ; no. 317.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-262) and index.
- Language
- Text in English, with translated excerpts of prose and poetry from several European languages.
- Chronological Term
- To 1500
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9789514111402
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-1246