Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry. In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition of Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth proposed that a "language near to the language of men" was as appropriate for poetry as it was for prose. This idea was very influential, though more in theory than practice: a special "poetic" vocabulary and mode of metaphor persisted in 19th century poetry. It was deplored by the Modernist poets of the 20th century, who again proposed that there is no such thing as a "prosaic" word unsuitable for poetry.
Poeticdiction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry. In the Western tradition...
literature. After finishing his B. Litt., which became his third book PoeticDiction, he was a dedicated poet and author for over ten years. After 1934 his...
introspective character. Diction also has an impact upon word choice and syntax. Aristotle, in The Poetics (20), defines the parts of diction (λέξις) as the letter...
use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony, and other stylistic elements of poeticdiction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly, figures...
feeling. PoeticDiction is a style of writing in poetry which encompasses vocabulary, phrasing, and grammatical usage. Along with syntax, poeticdiction functions...
of the book deal with the nature of poetry and with the question of poeticdiction raised by Wordsworth. While maintaining a general agreement with Wordsworth's...
Bruce Robert Jr (March 1932), "Archaism and Innovation in Spenser's PoeticDiction", PMLA, 47 (1): 144–70, doi:10.2307/458025, JSTOR 458025, S2CID 163385153...
another edition, published in 1802, Wordsworth added an appendix titled PoeticDiction in which he expanded the ideas set forth in the preface. A third edition...
(syllable length). In other words, they descend from a fragment of poeticdiction (reconstructable as Proto-Indo-European *ḱléwos ń̥dʰgʷʰitom) which was...
from the Elegy, although Eliot believed that Gray's diction, along with 18th-century poeticdiction in general, was restrictive and limited. But the Four...
proto-logical concepts.[citation needed] English phonology PoeticdictionPoeticDiction (a book by Owen Barfield) Phonaesthetics Warman, Edward Barrett...
versions of poems that survive into today in a collection known as the Poetic Edda. The Prose Edda consists of four sections: The Prologue, a euhemerized...
the form. In his poems, translations, and criticism, he established a poeticdiction appropriate to the heroic couplet—Auden referred to him as "the master...
was that the Black Mountain poets developed a distinctive style of poeticdiction (e.g. "yr" for "your").[citation needed] Apart from their strong interconnections...
of fair hair. For example, the OED records its use in 19th-century poeticdiction to describe flowers, "a variety of clay ironstone of the coal measures"...
well-developed tradition of poetry from Lesbos, which had evolved its own poeticdiction, metres, and conventions. Prior to Sappho and her contemporary Alcaeus...
picturesque, the sublime, and the Gothic. Gray combined traditional forms and poeticdiction with new topics and modes of expression, and may be considered as a...
based on the ordinary language "really used by men" while avoiding the poeticdiction of much 18th-century verse. Wordsworth also gives his famous definition...
events of the past by incorporating elements of artful composition and poeticdiction. It seems that many of these events are limited to the phenomenon of...
that emphasised the dignity of heroic action. The innovation is the poeticdiction in English metre and vocabulary that corresponded to the verse structure...
were fundamentally an oral poetic form. These works form the basis of the epic genre in Western literature. Sonnet – poetic form which originated in Italy;...
the formerly artificial style of their antecedents to one free from poeticdiction or conventions. Johnson acknowledged as much in pointing out that their...
similar to an elision. Descriptive poetics Historical poetics Negative capability Pathetic fallacy PoeticdictionPoetic license Porson's Law Resolution:...
ISBN 978-0517885376. Mahony (1998:3). See the philological work of Own Barfield, e.g PoeticDiction or Speaker's Meaning Hermann Oldenberg (1894). Die Religion des Veda...
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