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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... Edwin Morgan, for 'Auld Man's Coronach; Carcanet Press Ltd., for excerpts from Edwin Morgan's 'New English Riddles', 'Tropic', 'On Jupiter', 'Nineteen Kinds of Barley', and 'A Trace of Wings'; and Seamus Heaney, for excerpts from the ...
... Edwin Morgan, for 'Auld Man's Coronach; Carcanet Press Ltd., for excerpts from Edwin Morgan's 'New English Riddles', 'Tropic', 'On Jupiter', 'Nineteen Kinds of Barley', and 'A Trace of Wings'; and Seamus Heaney, for excerpts from the ...
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... Edwin Morgan: Dredging the Whale-Roads 4. Old English Escape Routes: Seamus Heaney—the Caedmon of The North Conclusion: Old English—A Shadow Poetry? Appendix on Old English Metre Bibliography Index 17 68 122 182 238 245 247 261 CP CPM ...
... Edwin Morgan: Dredging the Whale-Roads 4. Old English Escape Routes: Seamus Heaney—the Caedmon of The North Conclusion: Old English—A Shadow Poetry? Appendix on Old English Metre Bibliography Index 17 68 122 182 238 245 247 261 CP CPM ...
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... Edwin Morgan , and Seamus Heaney . There are always other possible starting points . And Ezra Pound ' could have been the last item in a catalogue that ran from Tennyson and Longfellow through Barnes and Hopkins to William Morris and ...
... Edwin Morgan , and Seamus Heaney . There are always other possible starting points . And Ezra Pound ' could have been the last item in a catalogue that ran from Tennyson and Longfellow through Barnes and Hopkins to William Morris and ...
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... Edwin Morgan, a poet for whom repressed anxieties about the Second World War and sexual identity are also important factors in his early work, and partially articulated through an engagement with Old English. Again, Morgan's educational ...
... Edwin Morgan, a poet for whom repressed anxieties about the Second World War and sexual identity are also important factors in his early work, and partially articulated through an engagement with Old English. Again, Morgan's educational ...
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... Edwin Morgan is similarly perceptive: 'I think in the early cantos there's a very strong kind of evolution from Anglo-Saxon poetry, a lot of alliteration and four stressed lines and falling rhythms, trochaic rhythms. That's probably one ...
... Edwin Morgan is similarly perceptive: 'I think in the early cantos there's a very strong kind of evolution from Anglo-Saxon poetry, a lot of alliteration and four stressed lines and falling rhythms, trochaic rhythms. That's probably one ...
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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 |
Bibliography | 247 |
Index | 261 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
2nd edn accentual-syllabics Age of Anxiety alliteration alliterative allusion Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Reader archaism Basil Bunting Battle of Maldon Beinecke Beowulf Caedmon Canto Celtic century compound contemporary cultural dialect Dobbie Dream early edition Edwin Morgan elegy English Literature Essays Exeter Book Ezra Pound Ezra Pound Papers Faber falling rhythms Fenollosa Fuller Germanic Grendel half-line Heaney's heroic History ibid idiom Irish kenning kind linguistic literary London medieval metaphor metre Michael Alexander Middle English Modern English narrative Norse North Old English poems Old English poetry Old English verse Orators original Oxford passage pattern perhaps phrase poem's poet poetic Pound's Seafarer prose rhythmical Robinson Rune Poem Saxon Saxonesque Saxonist Scots Scottish Seamus Heaney seems sense speaker stanza strange stressed syllables suggests Sweet syntactic syntax tion tradition trans translation twentieth-century unstressed variation verb W. H. Auden W. S. Graham Wanderer Widsith words writing YCAL MSS 43