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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... poets who recognize that while Old English might be somebody else's poetry, it is, at the same time, also their ... poetic tradition may have run dry for several centuries, but it has been flowing steadily higher since the ...
... poets who recognize that while Old English might be somebody else's poetry, it is, at the same time, also their ... poetic tradition may have run dry for several centuries, but it has been flowing steadily higher since the ...
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... poets are exposed to its literature as part of their education (and all the poets under discussion here did encounter Old English at university), it is then available as a resource in a way that was obviously not the case previously.12 ...
... poets are exposed to its literature as part of their education (and all the poets under discussion here did encounter Old English at university), it is then available as a resource in a way that was obviously not the case previously.12 ...
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... poetic is an overlooked aspect of the much more familiar modernist trope of seeking renewal by returning to supposed ... poets there is in Old English something of the shock of the old. In returning to origins motivated by a desire for ...
... poetic is an overlooked aspect of the much more familiar modernist trope of seeking renewal by returning to supposed ... poets there is in Old English something of the shock of the old. In returning to origins motivated by a desire for ...
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... poetic practices might look strange, and even barbarous, to those familiar with a more decorous tradition, but these ... poets (apart from Hill) have been interested. All uses of the word 'primitive' in this book should be read in the ...
... poetic practices might look strange, and even barbarous, to those familiar with a more decorous tradition, but these ... poets (apart from Hill) have been interested. All uses of the word 'primitive' in this book should be read in the ...
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... poet had studied Old English at university, but had become acquainted with the literature or the language in less ... poets than alongside the formally schooled, technical experi— menters with Old English, Pound, Auden, Morgan, and ...
... poet had studied Old English at university, but had become acquainted with the literature or the language in less ... poets than alongside the formally schooled, technical experi— menters with Old English, Pound, Auden, Morgan, and ...
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