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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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