Title Strange Likeness : the Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry

Published Oxford Scholarship Online 2006

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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 Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Knowledge -- English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 Morgan, Edwin, 1920-2010 -- Knowledge -- English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 -- Knowledge -- English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 SUBJECT Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 fast Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 fast Morgan, Edwin, 1920-2010 fast Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 fast Subject English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Style American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism English language American poetry English language -- Old English -- Style English poetry Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 1280752475 9781280752476 9780191707889 0191707880 9780199278329 0199278326

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