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. INDICE: Introduction: Whose Poetry is Old English Anyway?; 1: 'Ear for the sea-surge': Pound's Uses of Old English; 2: Anglo-Saxon Anxieties: Auden and 'the Barbaric Poetry of the North'; 3: Edwin Morgan: Dredging theWhale-Roads; 4: Old English Escape Routes: Seamus Heaney - the Caedmon of the North; Conclusion: Old English - A Shadow Poetry?; Appendix on Old English Metre
- ISBN: 978-0-19-957742-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 14/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés