By Chris Jones
Strange Likeness presents the 1st complete account of ways previous English (or Anglo-Saxon) used to be 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 accounts to previous English are tested, besides the results on those poets' paintings of particular rules approximately previous English language and literature as taught whereas those poets have been learning the topic at collage. concerns corresponding to linguistic primitivism, the meant '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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