Purity of Diction in English Verse And

Two literary criticism pieces that have shaped approaches to teaching poetry since the 1950s are now available in one volume with a new foreword. Providing a brilliantly detailed analysis of the workings of English poetry, this collection focuses on the technical workings of poetic language, examining devices such as meter and diction. These explorations use examples from poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Eliot, and Yeats.

Donald Davie was an English professor who taught at the University of Essex, Stanford University, and Vanderbilt University. His works include Collected Poems, Poems and Melodramas, and Studies in Ezra Pound.

Foreword to the 1992 edition	p. ix
Purity of Diction in English Verse
Introduction	p. 3

The Diction of English Verse	p. 6
The Chastity of Poetic Diction	p. 16
The Language of the	p. Tribe
Live and Dead Metaphors	p. 26
Enlivened Metaphors	p. 30
Personification	p. 34
Generalization	p. 55
Circumlocution	p. 47
Poetic Diction and Prosaic Strength	p. 54
The Classicism of Charles Wesley	p. 61
The Vanity of Human Wishes and De Vulgari Eloquentia	p. 71
To speak but what we understood'	p. 79
Conclusion to Part	p. 91

Diction and Invention: A View of Wordsworth	p. 96
Coleridge and Improvised Diction	p. 105
Shelley's Urbanity	p. 114
The Shelleyan Sublime	p. 114
Shelley and the Familiar Style	p. 118
The Sensitive Plant' and 'The Witch of Atlas'	p. 125
Hopkins as a Decadent Critic	p. 157
Landor's Shorter Poems	p. 157
Pathos and Chastity in Thomas Gray and Thomas Parnell	p. 169
'Strength' and 'Ease' in Seventeenth-century Criticism	p. 171
Articulate Energy: An Inquiry into the Syntax of English Poetry
Introduction	p. 181
Preface to the 1975 edition	p. 182
Syntax as Unpoetical: T. E. Hulme	p. 189
Syntax as Music: Susanne Langer	p. 202
Syntax as Music in the Poetry of Thomas Sackville	p. 211
Syntax as Action: Ernest Fenollosa	p. 220
Syntax as Action in Sidney, Shakespeare and Others	p. 230
Syntax as Action in Eighteenth-century Poetic Theory	p. 243
Varieties of Poetic	p. Syntax
Introduction: Grammar and Logic	p. 252
Subjective Syntax	p. 255
Dramatic Syntax	p. 265
Objective Syntax	p. 266
Syntax like Music	p. 272
Syntax like Mathematics	p. 279
Syntax in English Poetry and in French	p. 284
Syntax in the Blank Verse of Wordsworth's Prelude	p. 294
Berkeley and Yeats: Syntax and Metre	p. 306
Syntax, Rhetoric and Rhyme	p. 319
The Grammarian's Funeral	p. 331
What is Modern Poetry?	p. 336
The Reek of the Human	p. 350
Appendix: Hulme, Mrs Langer and Fenollosa on the Relation of Poetry to Science	p. 355
Acknowledgements	p. 360
Index	p. 361
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