Syntax in English Poetry, 1870-1930University of California Press, 1967 - 197 pages This inquiry restricts itself to syntax in poetry for two related reasons: 1) during the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, literary scholars discussed word order only indirectly, in its relation to prosody, rhyme, scheme, and genre. 2) Studies of poetic language in the last 25 years have therefore been less concerned with the formal musical properties of verse than with diction. |
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... thoughts of which writers speak and the verbal equivalents of sense impressions , which are , one assumes , the stuff out of which thought is by some mys- terious process created . The " disintegrating " sentence follows such a rec- ipe ...
... thoughts of which writers speak and the verbal equivalents of sense impressions , which are , one assumes , the stuff out of which thought is by some mys- terious process created . The " disintegrating " sentence follows such a rec- ipe ...
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... thought and feeling - of which his own individual experience is a highly personalized selection . The thought relations in this deeper level have no specific linguistic vesture ; the rhythms are free , not bound , in the first instance ...
... thought and feeling - of which his own individual experience is a highly personalized selection . The thought relations in this deeper level have no specific linguistic vesture ; the rhythms are free , not bound , in the first instance ...
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... thought " in the poet's mind . " 55 However , this critic cites passages from romantic poets who preserve , on the whole , the conventions of grammar . A shift in a train of thought may be marked by a suddenly expanded and elaborated ...
... thought " in the poet's mind . " 55 However , this critic cites passages from romantic poets who preserve , on the whole , the conventions of grammar . A shift in a train of thought may be marked by a suddenly expanded and elaborated ...
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adjectives adverbs ambiguous American Poetry appear appositive Auden Babette Deutsch Bert Williams Brace Browning Bryant Cantos catalogues century chapter clauses coherent Collected Poems colloquial common complex consciousness Crane Cummings D. H. Lawrence device diction dislocation E. E. Cummings Edward Sapir elements example frag fragmentary Frost function Gerard Manley Hopkins grammatical signals Harcourt Hugh Selwyn Mauberley images Imagistes key noun kind Language New York later poets Lawrence lines linguistic literary Longfellow meaning ment metaphor modern poetry modifiers normal noun phrases occur parallel passage perception poet's poetic Poetry New York poets Pound pronoun prose psychic quotations reader regular sentence regular structures Sandburg selections semantic shift simple speech stanza Stevens style stylistic suggest Swinburne syntactic variation syntax T. S. Eliot Taupin tence Tennyson thought tion traditional verse Victorian W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden Whitman Williams word groups word order writing Yeats