| Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning Revised Edition Contributor(s): Barfield, Owen (Author), Nemerov, Howard (Other) |
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ISBN: 081956026X ISBN-13: 9780819560261 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1984 Annotation: 'Poetic Diction' it has been valued not only as a secret book, but nearly as a sacred one; with a certain sense that its teaching was quite properly esoteric, not as the possession of few snobs but as something that would easily fail of being understood by even the most learned of those jugheads whose mouths continually pour forth but whose ears will serve only for carrying purposes. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 808.1 |
| LCCN: 87022985 |
| Series: Wesleyan Paperback |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.03" W x 7.94" (0.60 lbs) 238 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Barfield discusses poetry's meaning in terms of both his personal experience and objective standards of criticism. Poetic Diction, first published in 1928, begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words "poetry" and why these arouse "aesthetic imagination" and produce pleasure in a receptive reader. Returning always to this personal experience of poetry, Owen Barfield at the same time seeks objective standards of criticism and a theory of poetic diction in broader philosophical considerations on the relation of world and thought. His profound musings explore concerns fundamental to the understanding and appreciation of poetry, including the nature of metaphor, poetic effect, the difference between verse and prose, and the essence of meaning. CONTRIBUTOR: Howard Nemerov. |