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Studies the work of the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) to explore how modern British poetry has engaged with the early medieval past in its renegotiation of local, religious, and national identities.
Sommario
- Introduction: 'Accidents of long past history': Medieval Modern Anglo-Welsh Identities
- 1: Reading with David Jones: The Anglo-Saxon Library and the Palimpsest of the Poem
- 2: An Alfredian Reading Project: The Literary Preface and the Reshaping of a British Catholic Community
- 3: A Poetic Historiography of the Early English Settlements: Reading History with David Jones in 'Angle-Land'
- 4: 'He'll latin-runes tellan in his horror-coat standing': Saint Guthlac and the Lost Narrative of the Britons in the Early Medieval Fenland
- 5: 'The Axile Tree': Northumbria, Anglo-Welsh Christian Tradition, and the Ruthwell Monument
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: The Anglo-Saxon Library
- Appendix 2: Compounds with Old English Roots in The Anathemata
- Appendix 3: Lines 39-41 of The Dream of the Rood cited in correspondence
- Appendix 4: Extracts from two letters on the Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century and the Augustinian Conversion
- Bibliography
Info autore
Francesca Brooks is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of York. She has previously published on sensory perceptions of the early medieval liturgy in England, the influence of liturgical innovation on vernacular Passion poetry (both medieval and modernist), and the crafting of sound in the riddles of the Old English Exeter Book. Dr Brooks teaches both medieval and modern literature and is interested in the intersections of critical and creative practice.
Riassunto
Studies the work of the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) to explore how modern British poetry has engaged with the early medieval past in its renegotiation of local, religious, and national identities.
Testo aggiuntivo
Poet of the Medieval Modern is an impressive and worthwhile read for its original archival research,...While this monograph will most deeply interest Jones scholars, other readers interested in modernist engagements with early medieval texts and modernist re-imaginings of history will find themselves rewarded with fresh insights into both topics through the extraordinary depth of Jones's poetry.
