London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967. — 188 p.Ten essays by critics and linguists on the verbal analysis of literature. From both theoretical and practical angles, the authors discuss and illustrate the application of analysis to texts ranging from Beowulf to Philip Larkin, with special reference to the topical issue of the applicability of linguistics to literature.Linguistic theory and the study of literature
The new criticism and the language of poetry
By algebra to Augustanism
Taking a poem to pieces
‘Prose rhythm’ and metre
Distich and sentence in Corneille and Racine
‘Linguistic’ reading: Two suggestions of the quality of literature
Linguistics and the figures of rhetoric
Chaucer’s epistolary style
The formulaic theory and its application to English alliterative poetry
