Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry

by Brian Vickers

Book Overview

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)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809314967
• ISBN13: 9780809314966
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.4"