Traces the nature of poetic language from the Renaissance to the present, covering Elizabethan times, Neoclassicism, Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Romantic and Victorian periods. The author takes a comparative view of successive attempts to define poetic discourse and highlights recurrent themes.
- ISBN10 0814326986
- ISBN13 9780814326985
- Publish Date 1 December 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 January 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wayne State University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English