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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 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.
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Poetic Diction : A Study in Meaning Wesleyan Paperback
author
:
Barfield, Owen.
publisher
:
Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin
:
081956026X
print isbn13
:
9780819560261
ebook isbn13
:
9780585371450
language
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English
subject
Poetry, Style, Literary.
publication date
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1987
lcc
:
PN1031.B3 1987eb
ddc
:
808.1
subject
:
Poetry, Style, Literary.
Page i
Poetic Diction
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Other books by Owen Barfield
PUBLISHED BY WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS:
History, Guilt, and Habit
The Rediscovery of Meaning and Other Essays
What Coleridge Thought
Speaker's Meaning
Romanticism Comes of Age
Unancestral Voice
Worlds Apart
Saving the Appearances
Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis
A Barfield Reader
PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE:
History in English Words
Eager Spring
Orpheus: A Poetic Drama
Owen Barfield and the Origin of Language
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Poetic Diction
A Study in Meaning
by Owen Barfield
Foreword by Howard Nemerov Afterword by the author
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Copyright 1973 by Owen Barfield
Poetic Diction was first published by Faber and Gwyer, Ltd., in 1928; a second edition was published by Faber and Faber, Ltd., in 1952. All rights reserved.
All inquiries and permissions requests should be addressed to the Publisher, University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Barfield, Owen, 1898 Poetic diction. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Poetry. 2. Style, Literary I.Title.
[PN1031.B3 1987] 808.1 87-22985
ISBN 0-8195-6026-x (pbk.)
WESLEYAN PAPERBACK Printed in the United States of America First Wesleyan edition, 1973 second edition, 1984
10 9 8 7 6
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To C. S. LEWIS 'Opposition is true friendship'
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Contents
Foreword
by Howard Nemerov
page 1
Preface to First Edition
11
Preface to Second Edition
14
I Definition and Examples
41
II The Effects of Poetry
47
III Metaphor
60
IV Meaning and Myth
77
V Language and Poetry
93
VI The Poet
102
VII The Making of Meaning (I)
111
VIII The Making of Meaning (II)
127
IX Verse and Prose
145
X Archaism
152
XI Strangeness
168
XII Conclusion
178
Appendix I
182
Appendix II
183
Appendix III
197
Appendix IV
203
Afterword
212
Index
226
Page 1
Foreword
This book first appeared in England in 1928, and was reissued there in 1952 with the addition of a new preface (here included) that helped to specify the application of its author's argument to views of the subject that had in the interval become more explicit, more brutal, and more unthinkingly accepted by scholar and layman alike, than had previously appeared possible.
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; with a certain sense that its teaching was quite properly esoteric, not as the possession of a 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.
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