Strange likeness : the use of Old English in twentieth-century poetry / Chris Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Chris, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Knowledge--English language (Old English).

Pound, Ezra.

Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973--Knowledge--English language (Old English).

Auden, W. H.

Morgan, Edwin, 1920-2010--Knowledge--English language (Old English).

Morgan, Edwin.

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013--Knowledge--English language (Old English).

Heaney, Seamus.

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English language--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Style.

English language.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Strange Likeness' examines how Old English was rediscovered by 20th century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing. The book also looks at issues such as linguistic primitivism, the supposed 'purity' of the English language, and the politics and ethics of translation.

Contents:

'Ear for the sea-surge' : Pound's uses of Old English

Anglo-Saxon anxieties : Auden and 'the barbaric poetry of the North"

Edwin Morgan : dredging the whale-roads

Old English escape routes : Seamus Heaney : the Caedmon of the North.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-161465-3

1-4294-6944-7

1-280-75247-5

0-19-927832-6

0-19-151550-7

9786612768132

9786610752478

1-282-76813-1

OCLC:

133077832