The Stylistics of Poetry: Context, Cognition, Discourse, History

by Peter Verdonk

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441158782
• ISBN13: 9781441158789
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"