Fossil Poetry: Anglo-Saxon and Linguistic Nativism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry

Cover......Page 1
Fossil Poetry: Anglo-Saxon and Linguistic Nativism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Contents......Page 12
Introduction: Fossil or Root? Anglo-Saxon and the Origin and Descent of English Poetry......Page 16
1: ‘Barbarous Hymn’: The Extinction of Early Saxon Poetry in the Romantic Imagination......Page 49
2: The Constant Roots of English Song: Anglo-Saxon and Essential Englishness......Page 93
Inter-chapter: Slaying the Jabberwock: Lewis Carroll’s Parody of Anglo-Saxonism......Page 145
3: Fossil Poems and the New Philology......Page 151
4: ‘A vastly superior thing’: The Fossil Poetry of Gerard Hopkins......Page 207
5: ‘From scarped cliff and quarried: stone a thousand types gone’ Tennyson’s Anglo-Saxon......Page 250
Conclusion and Coda: Fossil Poetry into the Twentieth Century......Page 285
MANUSCRIPT SOURCES......Page 292
PRIMARY SOURCES: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL, ANTIQUARIAN EDITIONS......Page 293
PRIMARY SOURCES: POST MEDIEVAL......Page 295
Index......Page 320