عنوان

English poetry and Old Norse myth

:9780199562183

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انگلیسی

English poetry and Old Norse myth

[electronic resources]

: a history

\ Heather O'Donoghue

First edition

; New York, NY

: Oxford University Press

, 2014

242 p.

;23 cm

Index

Bibliography

Prologue: Earliest contacts-Medieval poetry and Old Norse Myth -- Antiquarians and poets: The discovery of Old Norse Myth in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Preromantic responses: Gray, Blake, and the Northern Sublime -- Parallel romantics: The alternative Norse-influenced tradition -- Paganism and Christianism: The Victorians and their successors -- Epilogue: New Images-contemporary poetry and Old Norse Myth.

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This book traces the influence of Old Norse myth - stories and poems about the familiar gods and goddesses of the pagan North - on poetry in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Special care is taken to determine the precise form in which these poets encountered the mythic material, so that the book traces a parallel history of the gradual dissemination of Old Norse mythic texts. Very many major poets were inspired by Old Norse myth. Some, for instance the Anglo-Saxon poet of Beowulf, or much later, Sir Walter Scott, used Old Norse mythic references to lend dramatic colour and apparent authenticity to their presentation of a distant Northern past. Others, like Thomas Gray, or Matthew Arnold, adapted Old Norse mythological poems and stories in ways which both responded to and helped to form the literary tastes of their own times. Still others, such as William Blake, or David Jones, reworked and incorporated celebrated elements of Norse myth - valkyries weaving the fates of men, or the great World Tree Yggdrasill on which Odin sacrificed himself - as personal symbols in their own poetry.

English poetry

شعر انگلیسی

-- History and criticism

-- تاریخ و نقد

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Mythology, Norse, in literature.

English poetry.

Mythology, Norse, in literature.

O'Donoghue, Heather

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20150928140645.0

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9780199562183.pdf

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