Jones Chris:
Strange Likeness
The Use Of Old English In Twentieth-Century Poetry
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2006
Hardback, 288 pages
Size: 216x138 mm
ISBN: 9780199278329
ISBN-10: 0199278326
Strange Likeness
Provides an account of how Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth-century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing. This book also looks at issues such as linguistic primitivism, the supposed 'purity' of the English language, the politics and ethics of translation, and others.

