Constituent and Pattern in Poetry / Archibald A. Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Archibald A., 1871-1907, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [1976]

Summary:

A collection of essays on literature and language, built on the assumption that works of literature have existence in the real world and that they may be analyzed in a fashion that is not totally subjective.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Part 1. The Definition of Literature and the Study of Its Patterns

1. A Program for the Definition of Literature

2. Toward a Literary Analysis

3. Pippa's Song: Two Attempts at Structural Criticism

4. An Analysis of The Windhover: An Experiment in Method

Part 2. Types of Meaning and Imagery

5. Poetry and Stylistics

6. Analogies, Icons, and Images

7. Imagery and Meaning: A Passage from Lycidas and a Poem by Blake

8. The Locus of the Literary Work

Part 3. Principles for Interpreting Meaning

9. Principles Governing Semantic Parallels

10. Some Points in the Analysis of Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn

11. Two Views of Poetic Language and Meaning: The Poem as Cryptogram and as Example of Deviant Grammar

12. Figurative Structure and Meaning: Two Poems by Emily Dickinson

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hill, Archibald A. Constituent and Pattern in Poetry

ISBN:

1-4773-0009-0