Purity of Diction in English Verse and Articulate Energy

Overview

Two literary criticism pieces that have shaped approaches to teaching poetry since the 1950s are now available in one volume with a new foreword. Providing a brilliantly detailed analysis of the workings of English poetry, this collection focuses on the technical workings of poetic language, examining devices such as meter and diction. These explorations use examples from poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Eliot, and Yeats.

Author Biography

Donald Davie was an English professor who taught at the University of Essex, Stanford University, and Vanderbilt University. His works include Collected Poems, Poems and Melodramas, and Studies in Ezra Pound.