Donald Davie - Purity of Diction in English Verse

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Donald Davie

Purity of Diction in English Verse

English · Paperback / Softback

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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.

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Authors Donald Davie
Publisher Carcanet Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.1992
 
EAN 9781857541212
ISBN 978-1-85754-121-2
No. of pages 380
Weight 245 g
Series Lives & letters
Subject Fiction > Poetry, drama

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