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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... (London: Longman, 1977), 439. A similar claim, that 'the pure well head of Poesie did dwell7 in the 'gentle spright' of 'old Dan Gefi'ey', is stated in Book VII, Canto vii, stanza 9, lines 3*4, Spenser, Faerie Queene, 725. 3 In 'The Life ...
... (London: Longman, 1977), 439. A similar claim, that 'the pure well head of Poesie did dwell7 in the 'gentle spright' of 'old Dan Gefi'ey', is stated in Book VII, Canto vii, stanza 9, lines 3*4, Spenser, Faerie Queene, 725. 3 In 'The Life ...
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... (London: Macmillan, 1880), i. 1 (repr. 1891). Apparently, Charles Muscatine wrote, in 1960, that 'in the history of the literature in English, Chaucer is an anomaly. He has no significant predecessors.' Cited in P. M. Kean, Chaucer and ...
... (London: Macmillan, 1880), i. 1 (repr. 1891). Apparently, Charles Muscatine wrote, in 1960, that 'in the history of the literature in English, Chaucer is an anomaly. He has no significant predecessors.' Cited in P. M. Kean, Chaucer and ...
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... London and King's College London in 1828 and 1835 respectively)“ Once Old English becomes a part of the syllabus, and generations of poets are exposed to its literature as part of their education (and all the poets under discussion here ...
... London and King's College London in 1828 and 1835 respectively)“ Once Old English becomes a part of the syllabus, and generations of poets are exposed to its literature as part of their education (and all the poets under discussion here ...
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... (London: Penguin, 1985), 133. 'Mercian Hymns' is the title of a text extracted from a ninth—century interlinear Old English gloss on Latin Psalms and Hymns in Henry Sweet, ed., An Anglo—Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse, 13th edn., rev ...
... (London: Penguin, 1985), 133. 'Mercian Hymns' is the title of a text extracted from a ninth—century interlinear Old English gloss on Latin Psalms and Hymns in Henry Sweet, ed., An Anglo—Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse, 13th edn., rev ...
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... (London: Routledge, 1993)18 A correlating political ideology might be seen in George Curzon's advocacy of a renewal of the centre of a decadent metropolitan imperium by sending young men to its borders in order to experience contact with ...
... (London: Routledge, 1993)18 A correlating political ideology might be seen in George Curzon's advocacy of a renewal of the centre of a decadent metropolitan imperium by sending young men to its borders in order to experience contact with ...
Inhalt
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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 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