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1、ALinguisticHistoryofEnglishPoetryBringingtogethertheemphasesandtechniquesofmodernlinguisticsandliterarycriticism,theauthorappliesthesetoarangeofpoemsfromShakespearetothepresentday.Theauthorarguesthatpoetryisuniquelyandintrinsicallydifferentfromotherlin
2、guisticdiscoursesandnon-linguisticsignsystems.Lookingatavarietyofapproaches,includingthoseoftheNewCritics,Formalists,structuralistsandpoststructuralists,herevealshowpoeticstructureandpoeticsignificationhavechangedsincethesixteenthcentury,andoffersnewin
3、terpretivemodelsandmethodsforcriticisingpoetry.Particularemphasisisplacedonthetexts’contexts,bothinrelationtoliteraryhistory,andsocial,culturalandaestheticconsiderations.ThetextscoveredincludepoemsbyDonne,Herbert,Marvell,Milton,Pope,Thomson,Wordsworth,
4、Coleridge,Blake,Keats,Shelley,Tennyson,Browning,Arnold,Hopkins,Pound,Eliot,WilliamCarlosWilliams,DylanThomas,Auden,e.e.cummings,Larkin,andE.J.Thribb.Thebookcontainsdetailedreadingsofindividualtexts,workedexamplesandexercises,andaglossary,andisidealforu
5、nder-graduatecoursesinEnglish,StylisticsandLinguistics.RichardBradfordisLecturerinEnglishattheUniversityofUlsteratColeraine.TheINTERFACESeriesAlinguistdeaftothepoeticfunctionoflanguageandaliteraryscholarindifferenttolinguisticproblemsandunconversantwit
6、hlinguisticmethods,areequallyflagrantanchronisms.—RomanJackobsonThisstatement,madeovertwenty-fiveyearsago,isnolessrelevanttoday,and‘flagrantanachronisms’stillabound.TheaimoftheINTERFACEseriesistoexaminetopicsatthe‘interface’oflanguagestudiesandliterary
7、criticismandinsodoingtobuildbridgesbetweenthesetraditionallydivideddisciplines.Alreadypublishedintheseries:NARRATIVEACriticalLinguisticIntroductionMichaelJ.ToolanLANGUAGE,LITERATUREANDCRITICALPRACTICEWaysofAnalysingTextDavidBirchLITERATURE,LANGUAGEANDC
8、HANGERuthWaterhouseandJohnStephensLITERARYSTUDIESINACTIONAlanDurantandNigelFabbLANGUAGEINPOPULARFICTIONWalterNashLANGUAGE,TEXTANDCONTEXTEssaysinStylisticsEditedbyMichaelJ.ToolanTHELANGUAGEOFJOKESAnalysingVerbalPlayDeliaChiaroLANGUAGE,ID