A linguistic history of English poetry
This introductory book takes the reader through literary history from Renaissance to Postmodernism and considers individual texts as paradigms which can both reflect and unsettle their broader linguistic and cultural contexts.
225 s.
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Series editor’s introduction, Acknowledgements, Introduction: How to Use the Study, 1 Theory, 2 Shakespeare and the metaphysicals, 3 The Restoration and the eighteenth century, 4 Romanticism, 5 Victorian poetry, 6 Modernism and criticism, Appendix: Using the double pattern and the sliding scale as an interpretive framework for poems, Glossary, Bibliography, Index