Download e-book for iPad: Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in by Chris Jones

By Chris Jones

ISBN-10: 0199278326

ISBN-13: 9780199278329

ISBN-10: 0199577420

ISBN-13: 9780199577422

unusual Likeness offers the 1st complete account of the way previous English (or Anglo-Saxon) was once rediscovered via twentieth-century poets, and the makes use of to which they positioned that discovery of their personal writing. Chapters care for Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Edwin Morgan, and Seamus Heaney. Stylistic bills to previous English are tested, besides the consequences on those poets' paintings of particular rules approximately previous English language and literature as taught whereas those poets were
studying the topic at collage. concerns resembling linguistic primitivism, the intended 'purity' of the English language, the politics and ethics of translation, and the development of 'Englishness' in the literary canon are mentioned within the mild of those poets and their previous English encounters. Heaney's
translation of Beowulf is totally contextualized in the physique of the remainder of his paintings for the 1st time.

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