COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; How to Use this Book; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; CHAPTER TWO Figure: Walter Ralegh; CHAPTER THREE Selection: William Cowper; CHAPTER FOUR Measure: William Wordsworth; CHAPTER FIVE Equivalence: Gerard Manley Hopkins; CHAPTER SIX Spirit: Wallace Stevens; CHAPTER SEVEN Spirit: Frank O'Hara; CHAPTER EIGHT Measure: Robert Creeley; CHAPTER NINE Deviance: W.S. Graham; CHAPTER TEN Figure: Tom Raworth; CHAPTER ELEVEN Selection: Denise Riley; CHAPTER TWELVE Equivalence: Thomas A. Clark; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Epilogue: Deviance: Robert Creeley; Further Reading
Notes on PoetsGlossary; Index
The first study of poetic language from a historical and philosophical perspective. In a series of 12 chapters, exemplary poems - by Walter Ralegh, John Milton, William Cowper, William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, Robert Creeley, W.S. Graham, Tom Raworth, Denise Riley and Thomas A. Clark - are read alongside theoretical discussions of poetic language. The discussions provide a jargon-free account of a wide range of historical and contemporary schools of thought about poetic language, and an organised, coherent critique of those schools (includin
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-194) and index
