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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Page 129
... colour , though it is a colour often derived from incidental and private emotions , so that full critical appreciation of it is impossible without the historical attitude . None the less it is this second phase which in- cludes Pope's ...
... colour , though it is a colour often derived from incidental and private emotions , so that full critical appreciation of it is impossible without the historical attitude . None the less it is this second phase which in- cludes Pope's ...
Page 158
... colour'd with the Florid hue Of Rainbows and Starrie Eyes . It was , I think , only with his favourite poets that Cowper took these liberties . He would hardly have borrowed the complete phrase " preg- nant with celestial fire ...
... colour'd with the Florid hue Of Rainbows and Starrie Eyes . It was , I think , only with his favourite poets that Cowper took these liberties . He would hardly have borrowed the complete phrase " preg- nant with celestial fire ...
Page 213
Bernard Groom. instead of adding colour to the style , they give it an air of spurious antiquity . Expressions like the following are frequent : " the foughten field , " " holp me at my need ... colour of Tennyson , Browning , and Arnold 213.
Bernard Groom. instead of adding colour to the style , they give it an air of spurious antiquity . Expressions like the following are frequent : " the foughten field , " " holp me at my need ... colour of Tennyson , Browning , and Arnold 213.
Contents
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