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The first study of poetic language from a historical and philosophical perspective. In a series of 12 chapters, exemplary poems - by Walter Ralegh, John Milton, William Cowper, William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, Robert Creeley, W. S. Graham, Tom Raworth, Denise Riley and Thomas A. Clark - are read alongside theoretical discussions of poetic language. The discussions provide a jargon-free account of a wide range of historical and contemporary schools of thought about poetic language, and an organised, coherent critique of those schools (including analytical philosophy, cognitive poetics, structuralism and post-structuralism). Via close readings of whole poems from 1600 to the present readers are taken through a wide range of modernist, experimental and innovative poetries. Paired chapters within a chronological structure allow lecturers and students to approach the material in a variety of ways (by individual chapters, paired historical periods) that are appropriate to different courses.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Poetic Language
• Subtitle: Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to the Present
• Author: Tom Jones
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780748656172
• ISBN: 0748656170
• ID: 04674759
• Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 472 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 161 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. July 2012

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