Poetic diction : a study in meaning / by Owen Barfield ; foreword by Howard Nemerov ; afterword by the author.
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TextPublication details: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; Scranton, Pa. : Distributed by Harper & Row, 1987 printing, c1973.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 230 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 081956026X (pbk.) :
- 808.1 19
- PN1031 .B3 1987
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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.
First published by Faber and Gwyer, Ltd. in 1928; 2nd ed. published by Faber and Faber, Ltd. in 1952; 3rd ed. published by Wesleyan University Press in 1973.
Includes bibliographical references and index.