Heather O'Donoghue

English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History

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Produktbeschreibung

English Poetry and Old Norse Myth: A History traces the influence of Old Norse myth on poetry in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, examining how bmajor and minor poets in English have reflected changing attitudes towards the pagan North.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• New
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199562183
• ISBN-10: 0199562180
• Artikelnr.: 45436308

Autorenporträt

Heather O'Donoghue is Vigfússon Rausing reader in Old Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Linacre College.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Prologue: Earliest Contacts: Medieval poetry and Old Norse myth
* 1: Antiquarians and Poets: seventeenth and eighteenth century
discoveries of Old Norse myth
* 2: Preromantic Responses: Gray, Blake and the northern sublime
* 3: Parallel Romantics: the alternative Norse-influenced tradition
* 4: Paganism and Christianism: Old Norse myth and nineteenth century
religious thought
* Epilogue: New Images: Contemporary poetry and Old Norse myth