Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning by Owen Barfield, Howard Nemerov

Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning

Owen Barfield, Howard Nemerov

238 pages first pub 1928 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy poetry reflective slow-paced
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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 poetr...

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