TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leech, Geoffrey N
TI  - A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry
SN  - 9781138694941
U1  - 821.007 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge, 
N1  - 1. Poetry and the Language of past and present. Examples for discussion 
2. The Creative use of Language. Examples for discussion
3. Variations of Poetic Licence. Examples for discussion
4. Foregrounding and Interpretation. Examples for discussion
5. Verbal Repetition. Examples for discussion
6. Patterns of Sound. Examples for discussion
7. Metre. Examples for discussion
8. The Irrational in Poetry. Examples for discussion
9. Figurative Language. Examples for discussion
10. Honest Deceptions. Examples for discussion
11. Implications of context. Examples for discussion
12. Ambiguity and Indeterminacy
N2  - Professor Leech has given us the first full-length textbook suitable for teaching the 'new stylistics' to undergraduates
ER  -