Strange Likeness The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry

by Jones, Chris

• ISBN13: 9780199278329
• ISBN10: 0199278326
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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.

Author Biography

Chris Jones is Lecturer in Poetry at the University of St. Andrews.

Table of Contents

Introduction : whose poetry is old English anyway?	p. 1
'Ear for the sea-surge' : Pound's uses of old English	p. 17
Anglo-Saxon anxieties : Auden and 'the barbaric poetry of the north'	p. 68
Edwin Morgan : dredging the whale-roads	p. 122
Old English escape routes : Seamus Heaney - the Caedmon of the north	p. 182
Conclusion : old English - a shadow poetry?	p. 238
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