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Product Identifiers

PublisherWesleyan University Press

ISBN-10081956026X

ISBN-139780819560261

eBay Product ID (ePID)19038425114

Product Key Features

Number of Pages238 Pages

Publication NamePoetic Diction : a Study in Meaning

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGeneral, Poetry, Linguistics / General

Publication Year1984

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorOwen Barfield

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN87-022985

Dewey Edition19

Reviews"This extraordinary study stands virtually alone in focusing on the mysterious area in poetry between word and meaning. Only the most sensitive and learned guides coule lead us through this terra incognita. Barfield is such a guide The book has already become a classic."--G. B. Tennyson "Among the few poets and teachers of my acquaintance who know Poetic Diction , it has been valued not only as a secret book, but nearly as a sacred one."--Howard Nemerov, "This extraordinary study stands virtually alone in focusing on the mysterious area in poetry between word and meaning. Only the most sensitive and learned guides coule lead us through this terra incognita. Barfield is such a guide The book has already become a classic."--G. B. Tennyson

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal808.1

Table Of ContentForeword by Howard Nemerov Preface to first edition Preface to second edition Definition and Examples The Effects of Poetry Metaphor Meaning and Myth Language and Poetry The Poet The Making of Meaning (I) The Making of Meaning (II) Verse and Prose Archaism Strangeness Conclusion Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III Appendix IV Afterword Index

SynopsisBarfield 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPN1031.B3 1973