Anglo-Saxon and linguistic nativism in nineteenth-century poetry /
First Statement of Responsibility
Chris Jones.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
First edition.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Oxford, United Kingdom :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2018.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Title
Fossil poetry.
International Standard Book Number
9780198824527
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English poetry-- 19th century-- History and criticism.