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... English , " dog attending man = dogs him " . What is the moral of this for poetry in English ? Fenollosa argues that English is like Chinese in lacking inflections , and that English poets can therefore learn from Chinese usage . As ...
... English , " dog attending man = dogs him " . What is the moral of this for poetry in English ? Fenollosa argues that English is like Chinese in lacking inflections , and that English poets can therefore learn from Chinese usage . As ...
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... English , is hopelessly unscientific . But the contrast between French and English on this point is useful and sugges- tive . Dryden , for instance , indebted as he was to French models in Corneille , Boileau , St. Evremond , compared ...
... English , is hopelessly unscientific . But the contrast between French and English on this point is useful and sugges- tive . Dryden , for instance , indebted as he was to French models in Corneille , Boileau , St. Evremond , compared ...
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An Enquiry Into the Syntax of English Poetry Donald Davie. English in just the same terms ; the language of the French , he said , “ is not strung with sinews like our English ; it has the nimbleness of a greyhound , but not the bulk and ...
An Enquiry Into the Syntax of English Poetry Donald Davie. English in just the same terms ; the language of the French , he said , “ is not strung with sinews like our English ; it has the nimbleness of a greyhound , but not the bulk and ...
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abstract according action active agree appears argument arrangement articulation asks becomes Berkeley Chinese clear close comes common concrete connection consider course criticism distinction dream effect elements energy English example experience explain expression fact feeling Fenollosa follows force function gives goes grammar hand Hence Hulme human idea images instance kind Langer language less lines literature logic matter meaning metaphor mind move movement narrative nature never night objective once particular passage pattern perhaps play poem poet poetic syntax poetry Pope possible Pound present prose question quoted reader reading relation rhetoric rhyme rhythm seems seen sense sentence significant sleep sort sound speak stand stanza statement strength structure suggest symbolist symbols syntactical taken theory things thought tion true turn verbs verse whole words Wordsworth writing