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

Zusatztext ...informative and useful... detailed and informative ... a wonderful tool for teaching. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Jones
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2010
• EAN: 9780199577422
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957742-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter