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Strange likeness : the use of Old English in twentieth-century poetry
- Title
- Strange likeness : the use of Old English in twentieth-century poetry / Chris Jones.
- Author
- Jones, Chris, 1971-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 266 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Strange Likeness provides the first full account of how Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing. Chapters deal with Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, Edwin Morgan, and Seamus Heaney. Stylistic debts to Old English are examined, along with the effects on these poets' work of specific ideas about Old English language and literature as taught while they were studying the subject at university."--Jacket
- Alternative Title
- Use of Old English in twentieth-century poetry
- Subject
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 > Knowledge and learning
- Auden, W. H. 1907-1973 > Knowledge and learning
- Morgan, Edwin, 1920-2010 > Knowledge and learning
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 > Knowledge and learning
- Auden, W. H. 1907-1973
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
- Morgan, Edwin, 1920-2010
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
- 450-1999
- English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- English language > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Style
- American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- American poetry > old english, ca. 450-1100
- English language
- American poetry
- English language > Old English > Style
- English poetry
- Gedichten
- Oudengels
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and index.
- Contents
- 'Ear for the sea-surge' : Pound's uses of Old English -- Anglo-Saxon anxieties : Auden and 'the barbaric poetry of the North" -- Edwin Morgan : dredging the whale-roads -- Old English escape routes : Seamus Heaney : the Caedmon of the North.
- ISBN
- 0199278326
- 9780199278329
- 0199577420
- 9780199577422
- 9780191707889
- 0191707880
- LCCN
- 2006017221
- OCLC
- ocm70054148
- 70054148
- SCSB-14503849
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library