Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century PoetryStrange Likeness provides the first full account of how Old English (or Anglo Saxon) was rediscovered by twentieth century poets, and the uses to which they put that discovery in their own writing. Chapters deal with Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Edwin Morgan, and Seamus Heaney. Stylistic debts to Old English are examined, along with the effects on these poets' work of specific ideas about Old English language and literature as taught while these poets