Poetic diction
by Thomas Quayle
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About this eBook
- Author
- Quayle, Thomas, 1884-
- Title
- Poetic diction: A study of eighteenth century verse
- Original Publication
- United Kingdom: Methuen & Co.,1924.
- Credits
- Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- English language -- Diction
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 68420
- Release Date
- June 28, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.POETIC DICTION — CHAPTER I THE AGE OF PROSE AND REASON
- 5.CHAPTER II THE THEORY OF POETICAL DICTION IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- 6.CHAPTER III THE “STOCK” DICTION OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY
- 7.CHAPTER IV LATINISM IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY
- 8.CHAPTER V ARCHAISM IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY
- 9.CHAPTER VI COMPOUND EPITHETS IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY
- 10.CHAPTER VII PERSONIFICATION AND ABSTRACTION IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POETRY
- 11.CHAPTER VIII THE DICTION OF POETRY
- 12.FOOTNOTES
- 13.INDEX
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