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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... influence that is not widely understood or even acknowledged, as Eenton's book demonstrates. The Anglo-Saxon ... influential twentieth-century writers of English verse, Old English literature has proved to be a storehouse of technique ...
... influence that is not widely understood or even acknowledged, as Eenton's book demonstrates. The Anglo-Saxon ... influential twentieth-century writers of English verse, Old English literature has proved to be a storehouse of technique ...
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... influence of Old English tends to be more philological than technical or stylistic and the assimilation of Old English into material unrelated to Anglo-Saxon subject matter is, on the whole, a twentiethcentury development. These then ...
... influence of Old English tends to be more philological than technical or stylistic and the assimilation of Old English into material unrelated to Anglo-Saxon subject matter is, on the whole, a twentiethcentury development. These then ...
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... influence of Old English is discernible in his earliest poetry and suggest that this is much less the case than the poet might wish to believe, and that this claim could be seen as a post factum mythologization of the poet's own origins ...
... influence of Old English is discernible in his earliest poetry and suggest that this is much less the case than the poet might wish to believe, and that this claim could be seen as a post factum mythologization of the poet's own origins ...
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... influence of Old English on his own poetry seems to me impossible to separate from that of Old Norse and therefore, again, an area of research beyond the scope of the present study. From a personal point of view the omission I most ...
... influence of Old English on his own poetry seems to me impossible to separate from that of Old Norse and therefore, again, an area of research beyond the scope of the present study. From a personal point of view the omission I most ...
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... study seeks to demonstrate that the mode is not subsequently abandoned. Ibid. 354. 4 Eliot's designation in Ezra Pound, Selected Poems, ed. T. S. Eliot (London: Faber, 1959), 14. and inspiration to the influence of his Old English teacher.
... study seeks to demonstrate that the mode is not subsequently abandoned. Ibid. 354. 4 Eliot's designation in Ezra Pound, Selected Poems, ed. T. S. Eliot (London: Faber, 1959), 14. and inspiration to the influence of his Old English teacher.
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