Poetical Dictionary

Poetical Dictionary PDF Author: Lohren Green
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Poetry. Lohren Green's POETICAL DICTIONARY concludes with chaos and begins with acrobatics. In between these he presents us with "both a book of words and a cosmos"; a linguistic gas cloud bounded by the universal and the particular. Green's project departs from the traditional dictionary, a peculiar contraption of sense and order. In the preface, he reviews the architectures of these teetering, teeming, linguistic edifices. His attitude towards words is almost that of a material scientist, exploding an individual specimen of language-"bulwark" "heft" "oyster" "purple" "torpid" "foreplay"--in order to ascertain its "synthesis of body and concept." Organized into SUBJECT WORD, PRONUNCIATION, ETYMOLOGY, and DEFINITION, each entry in the POETICAL DICTIONARY makes the traditional dictionary hiccup, divulging the stanza within the standard definition and the wiggle of wit in the pronunciation key. "addressable / glow unit of / information"--from "pixel."

Poetical Dictionary

Poetical Dictionary PDF Author: Lohren Green
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Poetry. Lohren Green's POETICAL DICTIONARY concludes with chaos and begins with acrobatics. In between these he presents us with "both a book of words and a cosmos"; a linguistic gas cloud bounded by the universal and the particular. Green's project departs from the traditional dictionary, a peculiar contraption of sense and order. In the preface, he reviews the architectures of these teetering, teeming, linguistic edifices. His attitude towards words is almost that of a material scientist, exploding an individual specimen of language-"bulwark" "heft" "oyster" "purple" "torpid" "foreplay"--in order to ascertain its "synthesis of body and concept." Organized into SUBJECT WORD, PRONUNCIATION, ETYMOLOGY, and DEFINITION, each entry in the POETICAL DICTIONARY makes the traditional dictionary hiccup, divulging the stanza within the standard definition and the wiggle of wit in the pronunciation key. "addressable / glow unit of / information"--from "pixel."

A Poetical Dictionary

A Poetical Dictionary PDF Author: David Hitchcock
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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With Explanatory Remarks. For the Use of Society in General, and Politicians in Particular

Poetry Dictionary

Poetry Dictionary PDF Author: John Drury
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
ISBN: 9781582973296
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The language of poetry is rich and complex—from abstract language to voice, with all the enjambment, Nashers and sprung rhythm in between. The Poetry Dictionary illuminates and unravels it all with clear, working definitions. In addition, you'll find vivid and thorough descriptions, along with examples from classic and contemporary poetry, Greek to avant-garde, to illustrate the terms. In many cases, several different poems are used to show the evolution of the form, making The Poetry Dictionary a unique anthology of the art. It's a guide to the poetry of today and yesterday, with intriguing hints as to what tomorrow holds. Author/poet John Drury focuses on those terms that are useful to students and teachers. These are words you need to effectively discuss the craft—concepts that will broaden and stimulate your own creative processes. Drury's from-experience viewpoint and spirited voice keep The Poetry Dictionary relevant, immediate and not only easy to read, but hard not to.

A Poetical Dictionary

A Poetical Dictionary PDF Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Sleeping with the Dictionary

Sleeping with the Dictionary PDF Author: Harryette Mullen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520927834
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99

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Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse. Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."

Longman Dictionary and Handbook of Poetry

Longman Dictionary and Handbook of Poetry PDF Author: Jack Myers
Publisher: New York : Longman
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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A Poetical Dictionary; Or, the Beauties of the English Poets, Alphabetically Displayed. ...

A Poetical Dictionary; Or, the Beauties of the English Poets, Alphabetically Displayed. ... PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Dictionary for a Better World

Dictionary for a Better World PDF Author: Irene Latham
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
ISBN: 1541557751
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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A powerful and inspiring new poetry collection from the co-authors of Can I Touch Your Hair?

A Poetical Dictionary; or, the Beauties of the English poets, alphabetically displayed, etc. [By Samuel Derrick, formerly attributed to Oliver Goldsmith.]

A Poetical Dictionary; or, the Beauties of the English poets, alphabetically displayed, etc. [By Samuel Derrick, formerly attributed to Oliver Goldsmith.] PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Dictionary of Poetic Terms

Dictionary of Poetic Terms PDF Author: Jack Myers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574411669
Category : Poetics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Alphabetically arranged entries explain the devices, techniques, history, theory, and terminology of poetry from the Classical period to the present.