Author: SHERBO, Arthur.
Title: English Poetic Diction from Chaucer to Wordsworth.
Description: Michigan State University Press, 1975. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Good condition in dj. Traces a history of poetic diction from Chaucer to Wordsworth, showing how widespread the use of this reservoir of word, phrase, & image was in the work of good, bad & indifferent poets. Examines the works of Chaucer, Spencer, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Wordsworth etc. 214pp.

Keywords: poet poetry literary criticism english diction spenser shakespeare milton dryden pope thomson wordsworth