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Item Details
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PURITY OF DICTION IN ENGLISH VERSE
WITH NEW EPILOGUE |
| By: |
Donald Davie |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£4.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1857541219 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781857541212 |
| Publisher: |
CARCANET P. |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 1994 |
| Edition: |
New ed |
| Series: |
Lives & letters |
| Pages: |
380 |
| Description: |
This volume explores how the vocabulary choice of late 18th-century writers gave them a different force and moral value from Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley. It also examines the major theories of how syntax functions in poetry, using examples from Shakespeare to Paul Valery. |
| Synopsis: |
"Purity of Diction in English Verse" (1952) explains how the vocabulary choice of late 18th-century writers like Cowper, Goldsmith and Dr Johnson gave them a force and moral value different from Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley. "Articulate Energy" examines the major theories of how syntax - the basic building blocks of language - functions in poetry, using examples from Byron and Eliot, Pope and Pound, Sidney and Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, Paul Valery and W.B. Yeats. Davie draws on his experience as a poet and a critic. The final chapters explore what is meant by "modern poetry" and why the greatest poetry must always "reek of humanity". |
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