A Glossary of Literary TermsAs 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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... poetry is a worldwide movement that was largely inaugurated in 1953 by the Swiss poet Eugen Gomringer . The practice of such poetry varies widely , but the common feature is the use of a radically reduced language , typed or printed in ...
... poetry is a worldwide movement that was largely inaugurated in 1953 by the Swiss poet Eugen Gomringer . The practice of such poetry varies widely , but the common feature is the use of a radically reduced language , typed or printed in ...
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... poetry is " the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings . ” According to this point of view poetry is not primarily a mirror of men in action ; on the contrary , its essential element is the poet's own feelings , while the process of ...
... poetry is " the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings . ” According to this point of view poetry is not primarily a mirror of men in action ; on the contrary , its essential element is the poet's own feelings , while the process of ...
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... Poetry . Poetry that is composed and transmitted by singers or reciters . Its origins are prehistoric , yet it continues to flourish even now among populations which for the most part cannot read or write . Oral poetry includes both ...
... Poetry . Poetry that is composed and transmitted by singers or reciters . Its origins are prehistoric , yet it continues to flourish even now among populations which for the most part cannot read or write . Oral poetry includes both ...
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aesthetic Alexander Pope allegory American analysis applied artistic ballad called characters comedy comic concepts conventions cultural deconstruction Derrida developed discourse distinction diverse drama effect Elizabethan England English epic essays example feminist French genre Greek human I. A. Richards ideology 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 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 sense Shakespeare's signify social sonnet speech stanza story stress structuralist structure style T. S. Eliot term theory Thomas tion traditional tragedy utterance verbal verse W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden W. K. Wimsatt William words writers written