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 recent term for an ancient type , called pattern poems , which experiment with the visual shape in which a text is presented on the page . Some Greek poets , beginning in the third century B.C. , shaped a text in the form of ...
... Poetry is a recent term for an ancient type , called pattern poems , which experiment with the visual shape in which a text is presented on the page . Some Greek poets , beginning in the third century B.C. , shaped a text in the form of ...
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... Poets . John Dryden said in his Discourse of Satire ( 1693 ) that John Donne in his poetry " affects the metaphysics , " meaning that Donne employs the ... poets have had some admirers in every age , MELODRAMA METAPHYSICAL POETS 111.
... Poets . John Dryden said in his Discourse of Satire ( 1693 ) that John Donne in his poetry " affects the metaphysics , " meaning that Donne employs the ... poets have had some admirers in every age , MELODRAMA METAPHYSICAL POETS 111.
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... poetry was about other people , but much of romantic poetry invited the reader to identify the protagonists with the poets them- selves , either directly , as in Wordsworth's Prelude ( 1805 ; revised 1850 ) and a number of romantic ...
... poetry was about other people , but much of romantic poetry invited the reader to identify the protagonists with the poets them- selves , either directly , as in Wordsworth's Prelude ( 1805 ; revised 1850 ) and a number of romantic ...
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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