Anglo–Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination

Introduction - Nicholas Perkins and David Clark From Heorot to Hollywood: Beowulf in its Third Millennium - C S Jones Priming the Poets: the Making of Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader - M Atherton Owed to Both Sides: W.H. Auden's Double Debt to the Literature of the North - Heather O'Donoghue Writing for an Anglo-Saxon Audience in the Twentieth Century: J.R.R. Tolkien's Old English Chronicles - Maria Artamonova 'Wounded men and wounded trees': David Jones and the Anglo-Saxon Culture Tangle - Anna Johnson Basil Bunting, Briggflatts, Lindisfarne, and Anglo-Saxon Interlace - Clare Lees BOOM: Seeing Beowulf in Pictures and Print - Sian Echard Window in the Wall: Looking for Grand Opera in John Gardner's Grendel - Allen J. Frantzen Re-placing Masculinity: The DC Comics Beowulf Series and its Context, 1975-6 - Catherine A M Clarke P.D. James Reads Beowulf - John Halbrooks Ban Welondes: Wayland Smith in Popular Culture - Maria Sachiko Cecire 'Overlord of the M5': The Superlative Structure of Sovereignty in Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns - Hannah J. Crawforth The Absent Anglo-Saxon Past in Ted Hughes's Elmet - Joshua Davies Resurrecting Saxon Things: Peter Reading, 'species decline', and Old English Poetry - Rebecca Anne Barr