A Glossary of Literary TermsHarcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1993 - 301 pages As in the first edition, this work is organized as a series of succinct essays in the alphabetical order of the title term, but it now includes new essays, many drastically recast essays, and expanded and updated lists of suggested readings. |
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Page 54
... poetic craftsmen in deliberate imitation of the traditional form . Of this kind is Virgil's Latin poem the Aeneid , which later served as the chief model for Milton's literary epic Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) ; Paradise Lost in turn became ...
... poetic craftsmen in deliberate imitation of the traditional form . Of this kind is Virgil's Latin poem the Aeneid , which later served as the chief model for Milton's literary epic Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) ; Paradise Lost in turn became ...
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... poem or poetic passage in which the poet disavows or retracts an earlier poem or type of subject matter . An elaborate and charming exam- ple is the Prologue to The Legend of Good Women in which Geoffrey Chaucer , contrite after being ...
... poem or poetic passage in which the poet disavows or retracts an earlier poem or type of subject matter . An elaborate and charming exam- ple is the Prologue to The Legend of Good Women in which Geoffrey Chaucer , contrite after being ...
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... poem or poems of a " precursor , " or father - poet . The " belated " poet's attitudes to his precur- sor , like those in Freud's analysis of the Oedipal relation of son to father , are ambivalent ; that is , they are compounded not ...
... poem or poems of a " precursor , " or father - poet . The " belated " poet's attitudes to his precur- sor , like those in Freud's analysis of the Oedipal relation of son to father , are ambivalent ; that is , they are compounded not ...
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aesthetic Alexander Pope allegory American analysis applied artistic ballad called canon characters comedy comic concepts conventions cultural deconstruction developed discourse distinction diverse drama effect Elizabethan England English epic essays example feminist French genre Greek human I. A. Richards imitation interpretation irony James John Jonathan Culler language lines linguistic literary criticism literary text literature lyric M. H. Abrams Marxist Marxist criticism meaning medieval metaphor meter Milton mode modern moral myths narrative narrator neoclassic Northrop Frye novel object pastoral period philosophical play plot poem poetic poetry poets poststructural prose fiction reader reader-response criticism reading reference Renaissance represented rhetorical rhyme Robert Romantic satire semiotic Shakespeare's signify social sonnet speech stanza story stress structuralist structure style stylistics symbolic T. S. Eliot term theory Thomas tion traditional tragedy utterance verse W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden W. K. Wimsatt William words writers written