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Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry
Strange Likeness The Use of Old English in TwentiethCentury Poetry
Author: Chris Jones
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 eff...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199577422
ISBN-10: 0199577420
Publication Date: 12/1/2010
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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