Classical Rhetoric in English PoetryMacmillan, 1970 - 180 sider Back in print after 17 years, this is a concise history of rhetoric as it relates to structure, genre, and style, with special reference to English literature and literary criticism from Ancient Greece to the end of the 18th century. The core of the book is a quite original argument that the figures of rhetoric were not mere mechanical devices, were not, as many believed, a "nuisance, a quite sterile appendage to rhetoric to which (unaccountably) teachers, pupils, and writers all over the world devoted much labor for over 2,000 years." Rather, Vickers demonstrates, rhetoric was a stylized representation of language and human feelings. Vickers supplements his argument through analyses of the rhetorical and emotional structure of four Renaissance poems. He also defines 16 of the most common figures of rhetoric, citing examples from the classics, the Bible, and major English poets from Chaucer to Pope. |
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... literary criticism , and in that sense this book is an attempt to rewrite ' the whole story ' , or at least to provide a means of so doing . I hope that these elementary rhetorical analyses may serve as samples of how we can reconstruct ...
... literary criticism , and in that sense this book is an attempt to rewrite ' the whole story ' , or at least to provide a means of so doing . I hope that these elementary rhetorical analyses may serve as samples of how we can reconstruct ...
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... Literary Criticism ( New York , 1922 ) . D. L. Clark [ 2 ] , John Milton at St Paul's School ( New York , 1948 ) . M. L. Clarke , Rhetoric at Rome . A Historical Survey ( 1953 ) . W. Clemen , English Tragedy before Shakespeare . The ...
... Literary Criticism ( New York , 1922 ) . D. L. Clark [ 2 ] , John Milton at St Paul's School ( New York , 1948 ) . M. L. Clarke , Rhetoric at Rome . A Historical Survey ( 1953 ) . W. Clemen , English Tragedy before Shakespeare . The ...
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... Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance , 2 vols ( Chicago , 1961 ) . W. K. Wimsatt , ' Rhetoric and Poems : The Example of Pope ' , in English Institute Essays ( 1948 ) ; reprinted in and quoted from The Verbal Icon by Wimsatt ...
... Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance , 2 vols ( Chicago , 1961 ) . W. K. Wimsatt , ' Rhetoric and Poems : The Example of Pope ' , in English Institute Essays ( 1948 ) ; reprinted in and quoted from The Verbal Icon by Wimsatt ...
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Preface | 11 |
A CONCISE HISTORY OF RHETORIC | 43 |
THE PROCESSES OF RHETORIC | 61 |
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