But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed VerseDr Johnson disapproved of parentheses and wouldn't use them; and for three centuries grammarians have argued that they are subordinate, additional, unnecessary, irrelevant, and damaging to the clarity of argument. But for Marlowe, Marvell, Swift, Coleridge, Byron, Browning, Eliot, Geoffrey Hill, and Derek Walcott (to name only poets) parentheses have been emphatic, original, necessary, relevant, and essential to the clarity of argument. They also intensify satire. Dr Lennard offers both a new history of the poetic use of lunulae (the marks of parenthesis) from their first appearance in England in 1494 to the present day, and detailed case-studies of individual poets who exploited lunulae. In combination the historical development of use and the individual's practice in a given period reveal the impact on literary composition of technological, philosophical, and political pressures, and the importance for the reader of regarding punctuation as a resource. |
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... Coleridge's imagination was working at high tension , actual pictures seem to have passed before it with the ... Coleridge's “ tenacious and systematizing " memory ( as he referred to it ) which must be borne in mind , but also this ...
... Coleridge's imagination was working at high tension , actual pictures seem to have passed before it with the ... Coleridge's “ tenacious and systematizing " memory ( as he referred to it ) which must be borne in mind , but also this ...
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... Coleridge's interest ) the " empassioned & eloquent reasoning " , which argues the recovery of rhetoric from the strictures of the Royal Societarians ; the “ drama of reason " which , like the horticultural imagery , implies a dominance ...
... Coleridge's interest ) the " empassioned & eloquent reasoning " , which argues the recovery of rhetoric from the strictures of the Royal Societarians ; the “ drama of reason " which , like the horticultural imagery , implies a dominance ...
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... Coleridge not only a symbol of his own condition and the inspiration of his talent , but also a richly funny intellectual joke . What is being asserted about Coleridge's use of lunulae ? The specific observations are the affiliations of ...
... Coleridge not only a symbol of his own condition and the inspiration of his talent , but also a richly funny intellectual joke . What is being asserted about Coleridge's use of lunulae ? The specific observations are the affiliations of ...
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Colluccio Salutati De Nobilitate Legum et Medicine 1399 | 4 |
Samuel Whitgift Defense of the Auns were 1574 1819 | 18 |
William Shakespeare Sonnets 1609 | 42 |
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