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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... references , read portions of the text , and made comments and suggestions , among whom I should mention Mark Kilroy , Ross Borden , Dermot Quinn , Anne Bowler , Francis Ingledew , Donna Fulkerson Ross , Carter Revard , Tony Nuttall ...
... references , read portions of the text , and made comments and suggestions , among whom I should mention Mark Kilroy , Ross Borden , Dermot Quinn , Anne Bowler , Francis Ingledew , Donna Fulkerson Ross , Carter Revard , Tony Nuttall ...
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... reference of both the descriptive terms and the shape to the throne , and also to the drinking vessels . That reference is extended at two further points : the first when drunken violence is castigated : Chase brutal Feuds of Belgian ...
... reference of both the descriptive terms and the shape to the throne , and also to the drinking vessels . That reference is extended at two further points : the first when drunken violence is castigated : Chase brutal Feuds of Belgian ...
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... references are to first editions of Byron , the stanza numbering may vary from that of modern editions , Byron having added ... reference , as it appeared in six ' parts ' between 1819 and 1823. The volumes exactly straddle a shift in ...
... references are to first editions of Byron , the stanza numbering may vary from that of modern editions , Byron having added ... reference , as it appeared in six ' parts ' between 1819 and 1823. The volumes exactly straddle a shift in ...
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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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