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1 online resource |
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Cover; Fossil Poetry: Anglo-Saxon and Linguistic Nativism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction: Fossil or Root? Anglo-Saxon and the Origin and Descent of English Poetry; 1: 'Barbarous Hymn': The Extinction of Early Saxon Poetry in the Romantic Imagination; 2: The Constant Roots of English Song: Anglo-Saxon and Essential Englishness; Inter-chapter: Slaying the Jabberwock: Lewis Carroll's Parody of Anglo-Saxonism; 3: Fossil Poems and the New Philology; 4: 'A vastly superior thing': The Fossil Poetry of Gerard Hopkins |
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5: 'From scarped cliff and quarried: stone a thousand types gone' Tennyson's Anglo-SaxonConclusion and Coda: Fossil Poetry into the Twentieth Century; Bibliography; MANUSCRIPT SOURCES; PRIMARY SOURCES: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL, MODERN EDITIONS; PRIMARY SOURCES: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL, ANTIQUARIAN EDITIONS; PRIMARY SOURCES: POST MEDIEVAL; Index |
| Summary |
Fossil poetry' provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon in and by nineteenth-century poetry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English poetry
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English poetry -- Old English
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192557957 |
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0192557955 |
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9780191865886 |
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0191865885 |
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