English Poetry and Old Norse Myth
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 781
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 978-0199562183
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 94,000 word monograph is the first to offer a history of the considerable influence of Old Norse myth on poetry in English from Beowulf to the present day. It considers canonical figures such as Thomas Gray, William Blake, Matthew Arnold, David Jones and Kathleen Jamie alongside lesser known poets who were nevertheless popular and influential in their day. The myths themselves are adduced in the form in which poets would have encountered them, from the putative original oral material which influenced the Beowulf-poet through the many and variously authentic re-tellings in the centuries between then and now.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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