Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance

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Wayne State University Press, 1998 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 413 pages
"What is the nature of poetic language? This topic has been the subject of debate among scholars, poets, and critics for centuries, and continues to be a notoriously thorny issue today. Taming the Chaos traces this subject, for the first time, from the Renaissance through the present in chapters on Elizabethan times, Neoclassicism, Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Romantic and Victorian periods, Matthew Arnold, Pater, Eliot, and others."--BOOK JACKET. "In an effort to define the mysterious and attractive power of poetic discourse, Emerson R. Marks undertakes a comparative evaluative exposition of successive attempts to explain the phenomenon. He presents these attempts chronologically, and then distills crucial and therefore recurrent themes."--BOOK JACKET.

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Contents

Acknowledgments
9
CHAPTER ONE The Renaissance Setting
23
CHAPTER TWO Elizabethan Beginnings
37
CHAPTER THREE Neoclassicism I
51
CHAPTER FOUR Neoclassicism II
71
CHAPTER SEVEN Coleridge II
133
CHAPTER EIGHT The Younger Romantics
155
CHAPTER NINE Early Victorian Opinion
171
CHAPTER ELEVEN Pater and Others
217
CHAPTER TWELVE The Early Twentieth Century
247
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Aspects of Modernism
265
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Eliot I
289
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Eliot II
315
Postmodernist Theories
331
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