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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... kind of evidence, in sufficient quantity, necessary to justify and clarify the status of individual terms in their relationship to the general thesis. I have omitted many relevant matters from consideration because I thought them ...
... kind (leaky kind),16 and store (fleecy store).17 But these words, too, are “stock” not merely through frequent use, but by the manner of their use, and are in fact most clearly part of a stock diction when they can be referred to ...
... any other part of poetry. The effect of this has been, that descriptive poetry has degenerated into a kind of phraseology, consisting of combinations of words which have been so long THE APPLICATION OF NATURAL HISTORY TO POETRY.
... kind very different from that which is supposed by many persons to be the proper object of poetry. Without being culpably particular, I do not know how to give my Reader a more exact notion of the style in which it was my wish and ...
... Kind (Creech),32 scaly nations (Dryden);33 in the eighteenth century there is Pope's phrase scaly breed.34 10Fr. 38, in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. Hermann Diels (2d ed.; Berlin 1906), I. 187. 11Georgics I. 404. 12De Origine ...
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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 - 2020 |
The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-century Poetry John Arthos Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1949 |