Purity of diction in english verse / Donald Davie
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TextPublication details: London: CHATTO AND WINDUS, 1952.Description: 211pSubject(s): DDC classification: - 821.009 DAV
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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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