Classical Rhetoric in English PoetryMacmillan, 1970 - 180 من الصفحات Back in print after 17 years, this is a concise history of rhetoric as it relates to structure, genre, and style, with special reference to English literature and literary criticism from Ancient Greece to the end of the 18th century. The core of the book is a quite original argument that the figures of rhetoric were not mere mechanical devices, were not, as many believed, a "nuisance, a quite sterile appendage to rhetoric to which (unaccountably) teachers, pupils, and writers all over the world devoted much labor for over 2,000 years." Rather, Vickers demonstrates, rhetoric was a stylized representation of language and human feelings. Vickers supplements his argument through analyses of the rhetorical and emotional structure of four Renaissance poems. He also defines 16 of the most common figures of rhetoric, citing examples from the classics, the Bible, and major English poets from Chaucer to Pope. |
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Bibliographical Note | 13 |
THE PROCESSES OF RHETORIC | 61 |
THE FUNCTIONS OF RHETORICAL FIGURES | 83 |
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anadiplosis anaphora antimetabole aposiopesis argument Aristotle Astrophil and Stella asyndeton audience BIBLE ENGLISH Bolgar C. S. Baldwin century chapter Chaucer Cicero clauses conventions Curtius Demetrius Demosthenes Despair detail Donne effect Elizabethan eloquence emotional and psychological English Renaissance epanalepsis evidence examples expression Faerie Queene Faral figures of rhetoric force function genre give given Gorgias Greek Hellenistic Herbert Herennium Hoskins human humanist imitation important influence isocolon Isocrates Jonson Kennedy language Latin literary literature logic Longinus Marrou medieval metaphor Middle Ages Milton nature orator oratory Paradise Lost parison paronomasia Peacham persuasive ploce poem poetic poetry poets polyptoton Pope practical praise prose pupil Puttenham Quintilian Ramist Ramus repetition rhetoric-books rhetorical analysis rhetorical figures rhetorical processes rhetoricians Roman sense sentence Shakespeare Sidney Sonnet Spenser stress style teaching thee theory things thou tion tradition Troilus and Criseyde tropes tropes and figures Virgil words writers