Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry. In the Western tradition...

literature. After finishing his B. Litt., which became his third book Poetic Diction, he was a dedicated poet and author for over ten years. After 1934 his...

introspective character. Diction also has an impact upon word choice and syntax. Aristotle, in The Poetics (20), defines the parts of diction (λέξις) as the letter...

use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony, and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly, figures...

feeling. Poetic Diction is a style of writing in poetry which encompasses vocabulary, phrasing, and grammatical usage. Along with syntax, poetic diction functions...

of the book deal with the nature of poetry and with the question of poetic diction raised by Wordsworth. While maintaining a general agreement with Wordsworth's...

also commends Rahman's work thus: "[...] he [Rahman] decisively shapes diction in post-Tagorean and post-Jibananandian Bangla poetry. Also, Rahman offers...

Bruce Robert Jr (March 1932), "Archaism and Innovation in Spenser's Poetic Diction", PMLA, 47 (1): 144–70, doi:10.2307/458025, JSTOR 458025, S2CID 163385153...

another edition, published in 1802, Wordsworth added an appendix titled Poetic Diction in which he expanded the ideas set forth in the preface. A third edition...

versions of poems that survive into today in a collection known as the Poetic Edda. The Prose Edda consists of four sections: The Prologue, a euhemerized...

(syllable length). In other words, they descend from a fragment of poetic diction (reconstructable as Proto-Indo-European *ḱléwos ń̥dʰgʷʰitom) which was...

from the Elegy, although Eliot believed that Gray's diction, along with 18th-century poetic diction in general, was restrictive and limited. But the Four...

Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς Peri poietikês; Latin: De Poetica; c. 335 BCE) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and...

proto-logical concepts.[citation needed] English phonology Poetic diction Poetic Diction (a book by Owen Barfield) Phonaesthetics Warman, Edward Barrett...

well-developed tradition of poetry from Lesbos, which had evolved its own poetic diction, metres, and conventions. Prior to Sappho and her contemporary Alcaeus...

was that the Black Mountain poets developed a distinctive style of poetic diction (e.g. "yr" for "your").[citation needed] Apart from their strong interconnections...

picturesque, the sublime, and the Gothic. Gray combined traditional forms and poetic diction with new topics and modes of expression, and may be considered as a...

the form. In his poems, translations, and criticism, he established a poetic diction appropriate to the heroic couplet—Auden referred to him as "the master...

were fundamentally an oral poetic form. These works form the basis of the epic genre in Western literature. Sonnet – poetic form which originated in Italy;...

based on the ordinary language "really used by men" while avoiding the poetic diction of much 18th-century verse. Wordsworth also gives his famous definition...

Skáldskaparmál (Old Norse: 'Poetic Diction' or 'The Language of Poetry'; Old Norse pronunciation: [ˈskaldskaparˌmɒːl]; Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈskaultˌskaːparˌmauːl̥])...

of evidence for criticism. The New Critics regarded the language and poetic diction as most important, but the Chicago School considered such things merely...

that emphasised the dignity of heroic action. The innovation is the poetic diction in English metre and vocabulary that corresponded to the verse structure...

ISBN 978-0517885376. Mahony (1998:3). See the philological work of Own Barfield, e.g Poetic Diction or Speaker's Meaning Hermann Oldenberg (1894). Die Religion des Veda...

phrases that were not current in ordinary conversation, characterized as poetic diction. With the arrival of Christianity, concepts of decorum became enmeshed...

the formerly artificial style of their antecedents to one free from poetic diction or conventions. Johnson acknowledged as much in pointing out that their...

heightening the creative tensions between the ornate and the natural in poetic diction. The new plane of achievement set by Douglas in epic and translation...

can be seen in the increasing abandonment of the more conventionally poetic diction of his early work in favour of the more austere language and more direct...

meter in which Livius had been composing epic verses. Ennius moulded a poetic diction and style suited to the imported hexameter, providing a model for "classical"...

Tolkien, namely Owen Barfield's theory of language in his 1928 book Poetic Diction. The central idea was that there was once a unified set of meanings...