A Linguistic History of English Poetry

by Richard Bradford

Overview

This introductory book takes the reader through literary history from the Renaissance to Postmodernism, and considers individual texts as paradigms which can both reflect and unsettle their broader linguistic and cultural contexts. Richard Bradford provides detailed readings of individual texts which emphasize their relation to literary history and broader socio-cultural contexts, and which take into account developments in structuralism and postmodernism. Texts include poems by Donne, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Hopkins, Browning, Pound, Eliot, Carlos Williams, Auden, Larkin and Geoffrey Hill.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415070577
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/26/1993
Series:	Interface
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Series editor’s introduction, Acknowledgements, Introduction: How to Use the Study, 1 Theory, 2 Shakespeare and the metaphysicals, 3 The Restoration and the eighteenth century, 4 Romanticism, 5 Victorian poetry, 6 Modernism and criticism, Appendix: Using the double pattern and the sliding scale as an interpretive framework for poems, Glossary, Bibliography, Index