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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... thought it necessary to quote only a few examples from the poets of antiquity and the early Christian period, and it did not seem necessary to provide more than token evidence from the literature of the Continent in the sixteenth and ...
... thought them dispensable and because it seemed proper to make this only one volume. Economy has so far prevailed, in fact, that the Bibliography includes only a few items not cited in the text. There are many other books that have been ...
... thought their use more often than not a sign of affectation in a poet.63 These, then, are the important language forms which are characteristic of eighteenth-century poetry. Such a classification is valuable since this stereotyped ...
... this diction may be properly informed. And one of the most satisfactory ways of undertaking such study is by reading what some earlier critics thought was wrong in all this. CHAPTER II The Application of Natural History to Poetry HERE.
... thought caused the failure of so much of this poetry. Warton, Aikin, and Trapp were not obliged to justify a new method of poetry, as Wordsworth and Coleridge were, for they were less blinded by new interests, and they might be expected ...
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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 |