Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary Style

aesthetic alliteration alliterative verse analysis Augustan Beowulf Bérénice bound clauses Chaucer's collocation connexion context of situation counterpoint couplet deviation discourse distich distich-juncture distinction effect elements English alliterative enjambment epistle essay example fact foregrounding formal formulaic free clauses grammatical grammatical units grammetrics Homer I. A. Richards iamb junctures Keats's kind Le Cid linguistic features linguistic form linguistics and criticism literary criticism literary language literary texts literature meaning metaphor methods metre metrical metrical units Middle English non-literature nouns occur Old English poetry oral poetry parallelism Parry perhaps phonemes phonological phrases poem poet poetic language prose rhythm reader reference relation repetition rhetorical rhyme rule scale Scogan Sebeok semantic sense sentence speech stanza stresses style stylistics suggests syllables syncopation syntactical syntagmatic syntax techniques theory tion traditional usage utterance variety verb verbal verse W. K. Wimsatt Wellek width of cold words wretched width writing written