The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century PoetryRoutledge, 08.01.2020 - 480 Seiten Originally published in 1949, this title was written in order to help establish a better understanding of the ‘stock diction’ of eighteenth-century English poetry, and, in particular, of the diction commonly used in the description of nature. The language characteristic of so much of the poetry of this period had been severely criticized for a long time. But in the twenty or thirty years prior to publication some effort had been made to review the subject and the problem. However, several questions still remained unanswered, and more exhaustive analysis needed to be undertaken. This volume was an effort to provide answers for some of these questions and to begin the analysis that was required. |
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... Dryden's verse. In the succeeding chapters the study endeavors to establish the relationship of these formal elements in their employment in the description of nature to the language of earlier poetry and scientific literature. There ...
... Dryden's poems are quoted from the Noyes edition, unless otherwise stated, and Pope's poems are quoted from Boynton's edition except as noted in the Bibliography. Poems quoted from modern texts are cited by line number when that is ...
... Dryden's time to the time of the Romantics is called neoclassic. Sometimes it is known merely as eighteenth-century poetry, and the phrase is useful, since a certain style and diction seem to have been characteristic of the whole period ...
... Dryden's lines: He rais'd his arm aloft, and, at the word, Deep in his bosom drove the shining sword.2 A second characteristic of stock diction is the use of adjectives formed by adding the suffix -y to nouns. Dryden, for example, used ...
... Dryden and many another poet relied constantly on such words as care (museful care),14 genial (genial bed),15 kind (leaky kind),16 and store (fleecy store).17 But these words, too, are “stock” not merely through frequent use, but by the ...
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STABILITY AND CHANGE IN THE LANGUAGE OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY | |
THE INTERCHANGE OF SCIENTIFIC LANGUAGE AND POETIC DICTION | |
Illustrations from Earlier Poetry and Scientific Literature | |
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The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-century Poetry John Arthos Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1949 |