"Voltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long passages of it from memory during his lectures. And Adam Smith and David Hume drew inspiration from it in their writings…
Provides an account of a wide range of historical and contemporary schools of thought about poetic language, and includes an organised, coherent critique of those schools. This title surveys a variety of linguistic and philosophical approaches to poetic language: analytical, cog…
The first study of poetic language from a historical and philosophical perspective In a series of 12 chapters, exemplary poems - by Walter Ralegh, John Milton,William Cowper, William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, Robert Creeley, W.…
The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge - anthropology, linguistics, psychology - the ancient and innate art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of communicating this…
The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge - anthropology, linguistics, psychology - the ancient and innate art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of communicating this…
This book features more than three hundred photographs of native Wisconsin Ho-Chunk people by Black River Falls photographer Charles Van Schaick. The photos, taken between 1879 and 1942, include studio portraits and outdoor photos showing both traditional and modern activities. …
