By bringing together the emphases and techniques of modern linguistics andliterary criticism and applying them to a range of poetry from Shakespeare tothe prese... » 

By bringing together the emphases and techniques of modern linguistics andliterary criticism and applying them to a range of poetry from Shakespeare tothe present day A Linguistic History of English Poetry argues that poetry isuniquely and intrinsically different from other linguistic discourses and nonlinguistic sign systems. A variety of approaches including New CriticismFormalism Structuralism and Poststructuralism are used to show how poeticstructure and poetic signification have changed since the sixteenth century andinterpretive models and methods are offered for criticizing poetry. Particularemphasis is placed on the texts contexts both in relation to literaryhistory and social cultural and aesthetic considerations.The book contains detailed readings of individual texts including poems byDonne Herbert Marvell Milton Pope Wordsworth Coleridge Blake KeatsShelly Tennyson Browning Arnold Hopkins Pound Eliot William CarlosWilliams Dylan Thomas Auden e. e. cummings Larken and E. J. Thribb as wellas a full glossary. «