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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... nature. The language characteristic of so much of the poetry of this period has been severely criticized for a long time. But in the last twenty or thirty years some effort has been made to review the subject and the problem. Among the ...
... nature to the language of earlier poetry and scientific literature. There then follow three appendixes that assemble the material evidence upon which the argument depends. In the first appendix there is presented an alphabetical list of ...
... nature. In some way, it appears, they came to agree upon a pretty well defined store of terms and figures as not merely the proper but the indispensable instrument of poetic expression. Succeeding poets took up this vocabulary decade ...
... nature of a thing rather than any phase of its activity. It is the nature of a grove to please, but it is not making an effort to. At any rate, the present participle is often used in this manner in verse, so much so that it may be said ...
... nature and fortune as personalized forces—for example, such a one as “Nature is ever various in her frame.”43 Dryden, in fact, found it exceedingly difficult to keep an abstraction abstract, and his tendency to personify at the least ...
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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 |