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The introduction uses a set of lectures Borges delivered in 1967–1968 at Harvard University, published in 2000 as This Craft of Verse in order to engage in a preliminary analysis of Borges’ medievalism, notably his references to Old English and Old Norse. The chapter uses other evidence from the 19605, including the Spanish title of one collection El Hacedor and its English version Dreamtigers, in order to lay out the direction of the book.
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See “Of This and That Versatile Craft,” pp. 143–50 in Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse. Ed. Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
Ida Gordon, ed. The Seafarer (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1979) P. 37.
Alberto Manguel, With Borges (Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2004) pp. 27–28.
ABC Manguel, With Borges, pp. 69–70. The relationship among Bioy Casares, Silvina Campo, and Borges is discussed in pp. 61–76. The memoir is also published in Spanish, translated out of English: Alberto Manguel, Con Borges. Tr. Eduardo Bertí (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2004).
See Vladimir Brljak, “Borges and the North,” Studies in Medievalism XX (2011) pp. 99–128.
Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers. Trans. Mildred Boyer and Harold Morland. Introduction Miguel Enguídanos (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964), especially the introduction at pp. 12–16.
Many times, when asked what poems he loved most, his first answer was the epic poem, Beowulf. Second would be the elegies, led by The Seafarer. See, for example, the extended set of interviews he did with Maria Esther Vásquez, Borges, sus días y su tiempo (Buenos Aires: Javier Vergara Editor, 1984), where chapter 11 concerns “La literatura inglesa” (English literature), pp. 169–197; this material is p. 170.
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Toswell, M.J. (2014). Introduction. In: Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist: Old English and Old Norse in His Life and Work. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137444479_1
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