Essays on the Language of Literature

adjectives alliteration analysis assonance blank verse caesura called century Chatman clausal consonants context contrast couplets criticism decoding definition devices discourse dominant Donne Donne's effect elements emotive end-stopped English enjambment example expression fact foregrounding formal function grammatical I. A. Richards iambic iambic pentameter ictus important instance interpretation Keats Kenyon Review kind lexical lexical stress linguistic literary literature logical meaning metaphor meter metre metrical metrists Milton motif nature norm nouns object occur octet passage pattern perhaps period phonemic phrasal phrase plurisign poem poet poet's poetic language poetry Pope possible problem prose prosody question reader relation rhetorical rhyme rhythm seems semantic sense sentence sequence sestet sonnet sound speech Spenser stanzas statement stress structure style stylistic suggest suprasegmental syllables syntactic syntax theme theory thing thought tion trochee verbal verbs verse vowels W. K. Wimsatt words Wordsworth writers