Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination (EPDF) von David Clark

The essays here engage with the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons and their literature have been received, confronted, and re-envisioned in the modern imagination.

Introduction - Nicholas Perkins and David Clark
From Heorot to Hollywood:Beowulf in its Third Millennium - C S Jones
Priming the Poets: the Making of Henry Sweet'sAnglo-Saxon Reader - M Atherton
Owed to Both Sides: W.H. Auden's Double Debt to the Literature of the North - Heather O'Donoghue
Writing for an Anglo-Saxon Audience in the Twentieth Century: J.R.R. Tolkien's Old English Chronicles - Maria Artamonova
'Wounded men and wounded trees': David Jones and the Anglo-Saxon Culture Tangle - Anna Johnson
Basil BuntingBriggflatts, Lindisfarne, and Anglo-Saxon Interlace - Clare Lees
BOOM: SeeingBeowulf in Pictures and Print - Sian Echard
Window in the Wall: Looking for Grand Opera in John Gardner'sGrendel - Allen J. Frantzen
Re-placing Masculinity: The DC ComicsBeowulf Series and its Context, 1975-6 - Catherine A M Clarke
P.D. James ReadsBeowulf - John Halbrooks
Ban Welondes: Wayland Smith in Popular Culture - Maria Sachiko Cecire
'Overlord of the M5': The Superlative Structure of Sovereignty in Geoffrey Hill'sMercian Hymns - Hannah J. Crawforth
The Absent Anglo-Saxon Past in Ted Hughes'sElmet - Joshua Davies
Resurrecting Saxon Things: Peter Reading, 'species decline', and Old English Poetry - Rebecca Anne Barr