Poetic Language: Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to the Present

by Tom Jones

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748656162
• ISBN13: 9780748656165
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"