| Description |
1 online resource (276 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Strange Likeness examines how Old English was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing. Poets discussed include Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, Edwin Morgan, and Seamus Heaney, whose translation of Beowulf is for the first time fully contextualized within the rest of his work |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| SUBJECT |
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Knowledge -- English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100
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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Knowledge -- English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100
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Morgan, Edwin, 1920-2010 -- Knowledge -- English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100
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Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 -- Knowledge -- English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100
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Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 fast |
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Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 fast |
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Morgan, Edwin, 1920-2010 fast |
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 fast |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Style
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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English language
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American poetry
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English language -- Old English -- Style
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English poetry
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1280752475 |
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9781280752476 |
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9780191707889 |
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0191707880 |
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9780199278329 |
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0199278326 |
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