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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... words comes a list of passages demonstrating the use of the same terms in scientific writing. These, also, are given in chronological order, and again I have thought it necessary to quote only a few passages from the literature of ...
... word periphrases assembled in an alphabetical order according to the words or concepts they represent. Under each term the citations are arranged by author in a roughly chronological order. Here I have also employed principles of ...
... Words Significant in Eighteenth-Century Poetry, with Illustrations from Earlier Poetry and Scientific Literature Appendix B. Periphrases Appendix C. Epithets with the Suffix -y in English Scientific Literature BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX NOTE ON ...
... words and phrases which have a stereotyped character. These may be words which are used over and over again; or they may be words which, though infrequently used, share somehow a quality that belongs to hackneyed words. This quality ...
... words. For example, Dryden and many another poet relied constantly on such words as care (museful care),14 genial (genial bed),15 kind (leaky kind),16 and store (fleecy store).17 But these words, too, are “stock” not merely through ...
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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 |