Fossil poetry : Anglo-Saxon and linguistic nativism in nineteenth-century poetry / Chris Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Chris, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English poetry--Old English, ca. 450-1100.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

'Fossil Poetry' provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in 19th-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon in and by nineteenth-century poetry. 'Fossil Poetry' takes its title from a famous passage on 'early' language in the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and uses the metaphor of the fossil to contextualize poetic Anglo-Saxonism within the developments that had been taking place in the fields of geology, palaeontology, and the evolutionary life sciences since James Hutton's apprehension of 'deep time' in his 1788 'Theory of the Earth.'

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-255796-3

0-19-186588-5

0-19-255795-5