The Stylistics of Poetry

Download or read book The Stylistics of Poetry written by Peter Verdonk and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over the last thirty years, this collection of Professor Peter Verdonk's most important work on the stylistics of poetry clearly shows that the stylistics of poetic discourse is a diverse and valuable interdiscipline. Discussing the poetry of Auden, Heaney and Larkin amongst many others, Verdonk covers everything from intrinsic textual meaning and external context in its widest sense to the reader's cognitive and emotive response to poems. The book will appeal to all students on stylistics and literary linguistics courses, especially those focussing on poetry and poetic language.