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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... theories and problems that led to its use. These appendixes follow each other logically, not merely in support of the text but in relation to each other. The list of significant words raises questions concerned with the problem of ...
... theories of diction undermined the idea that poetry had a special language reserved for it, and in time the diction they rebelled against fell into disuse. But neither the Romantic critics nor modern scholars have fully explained the ...
... theory of language, the theory of 'poetic diction', was that poetry should possess, in Gray's words, 'a language peculiar to itself'. The functions of poetry and prose, it was maintained, are different, are even antithetical, and the ...
... theory to an extreme. He disregarded whatever was not important to a certain kind of didactic poetry. And while he came closer than most critics I have found in providing an explanation of eighteenth-century diction, his criticism is ...
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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 |