A Linguistic History of English Poetry

by Bradford,Richard

• ISBN13: 9780415070584
• ISBN10: 0415070589
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This introductory book takes the reader through literary history from Renaissance to Postmodernism and considers individual texts as paradigms which can both reflect and unsettle their broader linguistic and cultural contexts.This introductory book takes the reader through literary history from 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.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction to the Interface Series	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. xiii
Theory	p. 1
Shakespeare and the Metaphysicals	p. 31
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century	p. 66
Romanticism	p. 97
Victorian Poetry	p. 133
Modernism and Criticism	p. 154
Appendix	p. 200
Glossary	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 216
Index	p. 222
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