Introduction
Prologue: Earliest Contacts: Medieval poetry and Old Norse myth
1: Antiquarians and Poets: seventeenth and eighteenth century
discoveries of Old Norse myth
2: Preromantic Responses: Gray, Blake and the northern sublime
3: Parallel Romantics: the alternative Norse-influenced
tradition
4: Paganism and Christianism: Old Norse myth and nineteenth century
religious thought
Epilogue: New Images: Contemporary poetry and Old Norse myth
Heather O'Donoghue is Vigfússon Rausing reader in Old Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at the University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Linacre College.
although both specialists in Old Norse and scholars of
post-medieval English poetry will learn much from this
wide-ranging, sensitive, and readable study, it is readers who
think that they are more interested in English poetry than in Norse
myth who may find their preconceptions most fruitfully
challenged.
*Carl Phelpstead, Review of English Studies*
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