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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... Medieval cultures seminar at The Queen's University of Belfast. Friendly admonishment from Clare Lees about my use of the term 'Saxonist' ('what about the poor Angles?) came too late to take into account when revising the typescript. I ...
... Medieval cultures seminar at The Queen's University of Belfast. Friendly admonishment from Clare Lees about my use of the term 'Saxonist' ('what about the poor Angles?) came too late to take into account when revising the typescript. I ...
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... medieval literary traditions was, and remains, contestable. This, for example, is how James Fenton decides to make a beginning to his recent and highly profiled Introduction to English Poetry: English poetry begins whenever we decide to ...
... medieval literary traditions was, and remains, contestable. This, for example, is how James Fenton decides to make a beginning to his recent and highly profiled Introduction to English Poetry: English poetry begins whenever we decide to ...
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... Medieval Revival in England from the 1760s, forthcoming with Yale University Press. 11 D. Palmer, The Rise of the School of English (London: Oxford University Press, 1965), 19, 27, 111*17, 151. The use of English literature in teaching ...
... Medieval Revival in England from the 1760s, forthcoming with Yale University Press. 11 D. Palmer, The Rise of the School of English (London: Oxford University Press, 1965), 19, 27, 111*17, 151. The use of English literature in teaching ...
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... and Its Afterlife', in The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, ed. David Wallace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 7434. domesticity of Old English is exactly what generates their interest Introduction 5.
... and Its Afterlife', in The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, ed. David Wallace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 7434. domesticity of Old English is exactly what generates their interest Introduction 5.
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... medieval traditions, such as Old Norse, and that he tends to construct a romantic primitivist view of Old English and its neighbouring literatures, the chapter works chronologically through Heaney's oeuvre, observing how these views ...
... medieval traditions, such as Old Norse, and that he tends to construct a romantic primitivist view of Old English and its neighbouring literatures, the chapter works chronologically through Heaney's oeuvre, observing how these views ...
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