An edition of But I digress
(1991)
But I digress
the exploitation of parentheses in English printed verse
by John Lennard
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How Marvell, Coleridge and Elliot established parenthetical expression in English verse, and how Swift, Byron and Browning extended it.
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History and criticism, English language, Publishing, Parenthetical constructions, Poetics, Intellectual life, Punctuation, Poetry, Digression (Rhetoric), English poetry, English poetry, history and criticism, English language, punctuation, Comparative and general Grammar, American poetry, HistoryPeople
Robert Browning (1812-1889), George Gordon Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)Places
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But I digress: the exploitation of parentheses in English printed verse
1991, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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in English
0198112475 9780198112471
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"This book is concerned with the exploitation of lunulae, the notation for the parenthesis, in certain English printed verse; three poets are treated as case-studies, and others are treated with a framework of historical narrative."
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Introduction: History and Terminology
1. 1494–1640: Translating Into Print
2. Marvell In the Middle: Genre, Religion, and the Modes of Reading
3. 1680–1780: The Dislike of Dubiety
4. A Philosophy of Moonshine: Coleridge, Memory, and Imagination
5. 1810–1918: Reassertions of Human Scale
6. In Eliot’s Penumbra: Time and Absence
7. 1942– : The Modern Range
Conclusion: Definitions and (Theses)
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Index
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-315) and index.
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