文档介绍：A Linguistic History of English Poetry
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A Linguistic History of English Poetry
Bringing together the emphases and techniques of modern
linguistics and literary criticism, the author applies these to a
range of poems from Shakespeare to the present day. The author
argues that poetry is uniquely and intrinsically different from other
linguistic discourses and non-linguistic sign systems.
Looking at a variety of approaches, including those of the New
Critics, Formalists, structuralists and poststructuralists, he
reveals how poetic structure and poetic signification have changed
since the sixteenth century, and offers new interpretive models
and methods for criticising poetry. Particular emphasis is placed
on the texts’ contexts, both in relation to literary history, and
social, cultural and aesthetic considerations.
The texts covered include poems by Donne, Herbert, Marvell,
Milton, Pope, Thomson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats,
Shelley, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Hopkins, Pound, Eliot,
William Carlos Williams, Dylan Thomas, Auden, . cummings,
Larkin, and .
The book contains detailed readings of individual texts, worked
examples and exercises, and a glossary, and is ideal for under-
graduate courses in English, Stylistics and Linguistics.
Richard Bradford is Lecturer in English at the University of
Ulster at Coleraine.
The INTERFACE Series
A linguist deaf to the poetic function of language and a
literary scholar indifferent to linguistic problems and
unconversant with linguistic methods, are equally
flagrant anchronisms.—Roman Jackobson
This statement, made over twenty-five years ago, is no less
relevant today, and ‘flagrant anachronisms’ still abound. The aim
of the INTERFACE series is to examine topics at the ‘interface’ of
language studies and literary criticism and in so doing to build
bridges between these traditionally divided disciplines.
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