Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 From Heorot to Hollywood: Beowulf in its Third Millennium
- 2 Priming the Poets: The Making of Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
- 3 Owed to Both Sides: W.H. Auden's double debt to the literature of the North
- 4 Writing for an Anglo-Saxon Audience in the Twentieth Century: J.R.R. Tolkien's Old English Chronicles
- 5 ‘Wounded men and wounded trees’: David Jones and the Anglo-Saxon Culture Tangle
- 6 Basil Bunting, Briggflatts, Lindisfarne, and Anglo-Saxon Interlace
- 7 BOOO Seeing Beowulf in Pictures and Print
- 8 Window in the Wall: Looking for Grand Opera in John Gardner's Grendel
- 9 Re-placing Masculinity: The DC Comics Beowulf Series and its Context, 1975–6
- 10 P.D. James Reads Beowulf
- 11 Ban Welondes: Wayland Smith in Popular Culture
- 12 ‘Overlord of the M5’: The Superlative Structure of Sovereignty in Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns
- 13 The Absent Anglo-Saxon Past in Ted Hughes's Elmet
- 14 Resurrecting Saxon Things: Peter Reading, ‘species decline’, and Old English Poetry
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 From Heorot to Hollywood: Beowulf in its Third Millennium
- 2 Priming the Poets: The Making of Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
- 3 Owed to Both Sides: W.H. Auden's double debt to the literature of the North
- 4 Writing for an Anglo-Saxon Audience in the Twentieth Century: J.R.R. Tolkien's Old English Chronicles
- 5 ‘Wounded men and wounded trees’: David Jones and the Anglo-Saxon Culture Tangle
- 6 Basil Bunting, Briggflatts, Lindisfarne, and Anglo-Saxon Interlace
- 7 BOOO Seeing Beowulf in Pictures and Print
- 8 Window in the Wall: Looking for Grand Opera in John Gardner's Grendel
- 9 Re-placing Masculinity: The DC Comics Beowulf Series and its Context, 1975–6
- 10 P.D. James Reads Beowulf
- 11 Ban Welondes: Wayland Smith in Popular Culture
- 12 ‘Overlord of the M5’: The Superlative Structure of Sovereignty in Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns
- 13 The Absent Anglo-Saxon Past in Ted Hughes's Elmet
- 14 Resurrecting Saxon Things: Peter Reading, ‘species decline’, and Old English Poetry
- Index
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- Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination , pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010