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Strange Likeness - The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry (Hardcover, New)
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Strange Likeness - The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry (Hardcover, New)
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Strange Likeness provides the first full account of how Old English
(or Anglo-Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and
the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing.
Chapters deal with Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Edwin Morgan, and
Seamus Heaney. Stylistic debts to Old English are examined, along
with the effects on these poets' work of specific ideas about Old
English language and literature as taught while these poets were
studying the subject at university. Issues such as linguistic
primitivism, the supposed 'purity' of the English language, the
politics and ethics of translation, and the construction of
'Englishness' within the literary canon are discussed in the light
of these poets and their Old English encounters. Heaney's
translation of Beowulf is fully contextualized within the body of
the rest of his work for the first time.
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