202 Pages
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Routledge
202 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1958, Poets’ Grammar treats of a few grammatical forms and inflexions as they function in the work of some English poets and dramatists. For this purpose, the author is less concerned with the primary meaning of the word Grammar, as given by Shorter Oxford Dictionary , namely “that department of the study of language which deals with its inflexional forms or their... Read more
Preface 1. Introductory 2. Tense in Medieval Pageant and Poem 3. Pronoun and Verb in Shakespeare 4. Elizabethan and Jacobean ‘Personal’ Insights 5. The Metaphysicals’ Craft of the Verb 6. Limited Verb and Pronoun 7. Keats: The Subjunctive Realised, or a New Mood 8. Shelly and the Future Tense 9. Later Shifts and Developments 10. Preposition in Poetry and Translation Appendices Index
Biography
Francis Berry
