The Diction of Poetry from Spenser to Bridges"The book is primarily an essay in literary criticism The chapters are in part studies on the choice and use of worlds by certain English poets, but an attempt is also made to relate the diction of each poet to the quality of his work" -- Preface. |
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Spenser and the Early Spenserians p | 3 |
Shakespeare p | 26 |
The Spenserian Tradition and its Rivals up to 1660 p | 48 |
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adjectives admired Æneid appears archaic archaisms Arnold associations ballad beauty borrowed Browning Browning's Byron characteristic Chatterton Coleridge colour compound epithets couplet Cowper critic Drayton Dryden earlier early effect eighteenth century Elizabethan English poetry epic epithets example in O.E.D. expressions Faerie Queene favourite feature feeling Hamlet Homer imagination imitation instance interest John Dryden Johnson Keats Keats's kind language later Latin less lines literary Lycidas manner metre Milton mood names Nature Night nouns occurs original Paradise Lost passages passion pastoral perhaps periphrasis phrases plays poem poet's poetic diction poetic style poets Pope Pope's prefix prose quotations quoted rare words reader repeated rhyme Robert Bridges romantic Rossetti satire Scholar Gipsy sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's Shepheardes Calender simplicity sometimes sonnet Spenser Spenserian spirit stanza suggested Swinburne Sylvester taste Tennyson Thomson tion tradition translation true verb verbal verse vocabulary Wordsworth writing