Author: Davie, Donald
Title: Purity of Diction in English Verse
Description: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967. Reissue, orig.cloth. 20x13cm, viii, 217 pp, Reissue with postscript of the 1952 edition.. Minor rubbing,slight binding scratch & top-page-edge soil, VG. ¶ Contents: The Diction of English Verse; The Chastity of Poetic Diction; The Language of the Tribe: Live & Dead Metaphors; Enlivened Metaphors; Personification; Generalization; Circumlocution; Poetic Diction & Prosaic Strength; The Classicism of Charles Wesley; "The Vanity of Human Wishes" and "De Vulgari Eloquentia"; "To speak but what we understood"; Diction & Invention: A View of Wordsworth; Coleridge & Improvised Diction; Shelley's Urbanity; Hopkins as a Decadent Critic; Landor's Shorter Poems; Appendices:Pathos & Chastity in Thomas Gray & Thomas Parnell; 'Strength' and 'Ease' in Seventeenth-century Criticism.

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