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- ISBN 9780748656172
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jul 2012
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The first study of poetic language from a historical and philosophical perspective
In a series of 12 chapters, exemplary poems - by Walter Ralegh, John Milton,William Cowper, William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, Robert Creeley, W. S. Graham, Tom Raworth, Denise Riley and Thomas A. Clark - are read alongside theoretical discussions of poetic language.
The discussions provide a jargon-free account of a wide range of historical and contemporary schools of thought about poetic language, and an organised, coherent critique of those schools (including analytical philosophy, cognitive poetics, structuralism and post-structuralism). Via close readings of poems from 1600 to the present readers are taken through a wide range of styles including modernist, experimental and innovative poetries. Paired chapters within a chronological structure allow lecturers and students to approach the material in a variety of ways (by individual chapters, paired historical periods) that are appropriate to different courses.
Key Features:
Surveys a variety of linguistic and philosophical approaches to poetic language: analytical, cognitive, post-structuralist, pragmatic
Provides readings of complete poems and places those readings within the wider context of each poet's work
Combines theory and practice
Includes a Glossary, Notes on Poets and Suggested Further Reading
Tom Jones teaches English at the University of St Andrews, specialising in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, and poetic theory and practice. He is the author of Pope and Berkeley: The Language of Poetry and Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and essays on Pope, Berkeley, eighteenth-century philosophies of language, and contemporary poetry and poetics.
