TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davie,Donald
AU  - Davie,Donald
TI  - Purity of diction in english verse
U1  - 821.009 
PY  - 1952///
CY  - London
PB  - CHATTO AND WINDUS
KW  - Literature
N1  - 
PART I----

I The Diction of English Verse--

II The Chastity of Poetic Diction--

III The Language of the Tribe--

(i) Live and Dead Metaphors --
(ii) Enlivened Metaphors--
(iii) Personification--
(iv) Generalization --
(v) Circumlocution--

IV Poetic Diction and Prosaic Strength--

V The Classicism of Charles Wesley--

VI "The Vanity of Human Wishes" and "De Vulgari Eloquentia"--

VII "To speak but what we understood"--


PART II--

I Diction and Invention: A view of Wordsworth--

II Coleridge and Improvised Diction--

III Shelley's Urbanity--

IV Hopkins as a Decadent Critic--

V Landor's Shorter Poems--

Appendices:--

A. Pathos and Chastity in Thomas Gray and Thomas Parnell--

B. 'Strength' and 'Ease' in Seventeenth- century Criticism--
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