Fossil Poetry by Chris Jones
Professor Chris Jones from the School of English celebrates the publication of his book Fossil Poetry: Anglo-Saxon and Linguistic Nativism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry.
The first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in 19th century poetry in English explores the work of a variety of poets including Walter Scott, Henry Longfellow, William Wordsworth, William Barnes, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Morris, Alfred Tennyson, and Gerard Hopkins.
The book is published by .