English poetry and Old Norse myth : a history

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)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
English poetry > History and criticism.
Mythology, Norse, in literature.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English poetry
Mythology, Norse, in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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