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Taming the chaos : English poetic diction theory since the Renaissance

Traces the nature of poetic language from the Renaissance to the present, covering Elizabethan times, Neoclassicism, Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Romantic and Victorian periods. The author takes a comparative view of successive attempts to define poetic discourse and highlights recurrent themes.
Print Book, English, 1998
Wayne State University Press, Detroit (Mich.), 1998
413 p. 24 cm
9780814326985, 0814326986
1014849355