Author

Publication

1991 - Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

81,000 words, Guess

Page Count

324 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL1540735M
  • ISBN-100198112475
  • OCLC Control Number23868761
  • Library of Congress Control Number91019383
  • Goodreads2061944
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  • LibraryThing517533

Classifications

  • DDC821.009
  • LCCPR508.P34 L46 1991

Description

How Marvell, Coleridge and Elliot established parenthetical expression in English verse, and how Swift, Byron and Browning extended it.

First Sentence

This book is concerned with the exploitation of lunulae, the notation for the parenthesis, in certain English printed verse; three poets are treated as case-studies, and others are treated with a framework of historical narrative.

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