English poetry and Old Norse myth : a history / Heather O'Donoghue.

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. Especial care is taken to determine the precise form in which these poets encountered the mythic material,...

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Main Author: O'Donoghue, Heather (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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505 0 |a 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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