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Articulate energy : an enquiry into the syntax of English poetry

Donald Davie (Author)
Print Book, English, 1958
First American edition View all formats and editions
Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1958
Criticism, interpretation, etc
173 pages ; 22 cm
477872
Syntax as unpoetical: T.E. Hulme
Syntax as music: Susanne Langer
Syntax as music in the poetry of Thomas Sackville
Syntax as action: Ernest Fenollosa
Syntax as action in Sidney, Shakespeare, and others
Syntax as action in eighteenth-century poetic theory
Varieties of poetic syntax
Syntax in English poetry and in French
Syntax in the blank verse of Worldsworth's "Prelude"
Berkeley and Yeats: syntax and metre
Syntax, rhetoric, and rhyme
The grammarian's funeral
What is modern poetry?
The reek of the human