| Description |
xiii, 447 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
John Gower: Metamorphosis in other words -- Andrew Marvell: 'Its own resemblance' -- John Milton: Sound and sense in Paradise lost -- Samuel Johnson: Dead metaphors and 'impending death' -- William Wordsworth 1: 'A pure organic pleasure from the lines' -- William Wordsworth 2: 'A sinking inward into ourselves from thought to thought' -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes: 'A dying start' -- A.E. Housman: The nature of his poetry -- William Empson: The images and the story -- Stevie Smith: The art of sinking in poetry -- Robert Lowell: 'The war of words' -- Philip Larkin: 'Like something almost being said' -- Geoffrey Hill 1: 'The tongue's atrocities' -- Geoffrey Hill 2: At-one-ment -- Clichés -- Lies -- Walter Pater, Matthew Arnold and misquotation -- American English and the inherently transitory |
| Analysis |
English poetry Criticism |
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Poetry in English, 1350-1980 - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Originally published: 1984 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
English language -- Style.
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English poetry -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
87001579 |
| ISBN |
019282046X (paperback) |
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