Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century PoetryOUP Oxford, 07.09.2006 - 276 Seiten 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 these poets were studying the subject at university. Issues such as linguistic primitivism, the supposed 'purity' of the English language, the politics and ethics of translation, and the construction of 'Englishness' within the literary canon are discussed in the light of these poets and their Old English encounters. Heaney's translation of Beowulf is fully contextualized within the body of the rest of his work for the first time. |
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Pounds Uses of Old English | 17 |
Auden and the Barbaric Poetry of the North | 68 |
Dredging the WhaleRoads | 122 |
Seamus Heaneythe Caedmon of The North | 182 |
Old EnglishA Shadow Poetry? | 238 |
Appendix on Old English Metre | 245 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
2nd edn alliteration alliterative allusion Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Reader archaism Auden Beinecke Beowulf C. S. Lewis Caedmon caesura Canto Celtic century compound conflict contemporary cultural defining dialect Dobbie Dream early edition Edwin Morgan elegy English literature Essays Exeter Book Ezra Pound Ezra Pound Papers Faber falling rhythms figure final find first five Fuller Germanic Grendel Grendel’s half-line Heaney’s heroic History I/Wznderer ibid idiom influence Irish kenning kind linguistic literary London medieval metaphor metre Middle English Modern English Morgan’s narrative Norse North ofhis ofits ofthe Old English poems Old English poetry Old English verse one’s Orators original Oxford passage pattern perhaps phrase poem’s poet poet’s poetic Pound’s Seafarer prose refer reflecting rhythmical Robinson Rune Poem Saxon Saxonesque Saxonist Scots Scottish Seamus Heaney seems sense significant speaker specific stanza strange stressed syllables suggests Sweet syntactic syntax tion tradition trans translation twentieth-century unstressed variation verb words writing