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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... cold and stilted use of personification, the squandering of compound epithets, the superabundance of epithets formed with the -y suffix—all these are faults long since observed in the poetry of natural description. It is important that ...
... Cold; Languid, forlorn, and dark, their State they moan, Despairing when in their Aphelion. But Phœbus, soften'd by their Penitence, On them benignly sheds his Influence, Recalls the Wanderers, who slowly move At first, but hasten as ...
... cold “frigid.”52 The epithets he chose were relevant to his purpose, suitable to the matter he was discussing, and not in mere repetition but in extension of meaning. Such a phrase as tempestates sonorœ is the proper Virgilian example ...
... Cold he felt might not be only and chiefly in reference to his Body, which might be so alter'd, and dispos'd by this new briny Ambient, as to make such a disturbance in the course or texture of his Blood, as that which makes Aguish ...
... Cold (London, 1683), 172. 30Claudius Dariott, Dariotus Redivivus: Or a briefe Introduction Conducing to the Judgement of the Stars, enlarged by N. S. (London, 1653), 3. 31I. 92. 32Wilkins, Real Character 68. 33Nehemiah Grew, An Idea of ...
Inhalt
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 - 2020 |
The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-century Poetry John Arthos Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1949 |