Poetic Language : : Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to the Present / / Tom Jones.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Jones, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

The first study of poetic language from a historical and philosophical perspectiveIn 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 poems from 1600 to the present readers are taken through a wide range of styles including 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.Key Features: Surveys a variety of linguistic and philosophical approaches to poetic language: analytical, cognitive, post-structuralist, pragmaticProvides readings of complete poems and places those readings within the wider context of each poet's workCombines theory and practiceIncludes a Glossary, Notes on Poets and Suggested Further Reading

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- How to Use this Book -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO Figure: Walter Ralegh -- CHAPTER THREE Selection: William Cowper -- CHAPTER FOUR Measure: William Wordsworth -- CHAPTER FIVE Equivalence: Gerard Manley Hopkins -- CHAPTER SIX Spirit: Wallace Stevens -- CHAPTER SEVEN Spirit: Frank O’Hara -- CHAPTER EIGHT Measure: Robert Creeley -- CHAPTER NINE Deviance: W. S. Graham -- CHAPTER TEN Figure: Tom Raworth -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Selection: Denise Riley -- CHAPTER TWELVE Equivalence: Thomas A. Clark -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Epilogue: Deviance: Robert Creeley -- Further Reading -- Notes on Poets -- Glossary -- Index