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873949
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Jones, Chris,1971-
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Fossil poetry : : Anglo-Saxon and linguistic nativism in nineteenth-century poetry /\ Chris Jones.
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| Edition Statement
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First edition.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford, United Kingdom :: Oxford University Press,, 2018.
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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0191865885
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: 0192557955
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: 9780191865886
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: 9780192557957
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0198824521
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9780198824527
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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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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English poetry-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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English poetry-- Old English, ca. 450-1100.
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English poetry-- Old English.
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English poetry.
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POETRY-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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| Dewey Classification
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821.809
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PR581
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