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Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry de Chris Jones

Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry

Autor Chris Jones
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 oct 2010
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 effects on these poets' work of specific ideas about Old English language and literature as taught while these poets were studying the subject at university. Issues such as linguistic primitivism, the supposed 'purity' of the English language, the politics and ethics of translation, and the construction of 'Englishness' within the literary canon are discussed in the light of these poets and their Old English encounters. Heaney's translation of Beowulf is fully contextualized within the body of the rest of his work for the first time.
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ISBN-13: 9780199577422
ISBN-10: 0199577420
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 137 x 216 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Review from previous edition a groundbreaking study
Jones has an eye and an ear for the clever locution... reading this book [is] a delight.
Jones convincingly argues that Old English poetry constitutes a 'shadow tradition' that has exerted a unique and hitherto unacknowledged influence on twentieth-century poetry.
The discussions of textual influence which form the heart of the book are both scrupulously attentive and vigorously assertive, and there are some beautifully considered close readings here, with extensive attention given to language and metre...All those interested in the relationship between medieval and twentieth-century literature (and perhaps some who are not) should read it.
The book rests on a solid base of hard-won data ...astute... witty ... lucid
...learned, energetic and penetrating... Strange Likeness is a triumph: witty, imaginative and learned. No-one has written so well on Heaney's Beowulf, and scholars of twentieth-century poetry will have much to learn from the whole volume.
vigorous and engaging...One of the major strengths of Jones's book is the detail with which he supports Pound's claim that the forging of a new tradition lay in the reworking of an old one.
In his impressive elucidation of the Old English verse features which Pound carries through to his 'Saxonist prosody', Jones makes a hefty, lasting contribution to our enjoyment of parts of Pound's sharply sensory, taut and restrained free verse... [Jones's book] is erudite and deeply informed, drawing on years of research and reflection... intellectually convincing, while most valuable, perhaps, for its astute and responsive treatment of particular poems. Strange Likeness has stimulated my own search for finds: among the four major poets Jones looks at closely, in the books of those he glances at in passing, and among those younger generations to whom Pound, Auden, Morgan and Heaney hand on both models to follow and spurs to creativity.
On each reading of Chris Jones' immensely scholarly and beautifully written monograph, I have found new subtly interwoven critical motifs in his work, real strengths in his refreshingly direct response through close readings to the words and sounds of twentieth-century poetry and the manner in which poets such as Pound, Morgan, Auden and Heaney demonstrate what Jones describes as "an enormous transfer of poetic energy from Old English" into twentieth-century poesis. Jones has fashioned an important book that rewrites crucially important, yet often wilfully neglected, aspects of the history of twentieth-century vernacular poetics in these islands. It represents an outstanding critical achievement.
...informative and useful... detailed and informative ... a wonderful tool for teaching.

Notă biografică

Chris Jones was born in Wales and studies at King's College London and Queen's University of Belfast. He has taught in Rome and Berlin, and is now lecturer in poetry at the University of St Andrews.