Poetic diction : a study in meaning
Barfield discusses poetry's meaning in terms of both his personal experience and objective standards of criticism.
Print Book, English, 1973
Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn., 1973
Philosophy & literature, no. 626
Poetry
230 pages ; 21 cm.
9780819560261, 081956026X
495139
Preface to first edition
Preface to second edition
Definition and examples
The effects of poetry
Metaphor
Meaning and myth
Language and poetry
The poet
The making of meaning (I)
The making of meaning (II)
Verse and prose
Archaism
Strangeness
Conclusion
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Appendix IV
Afterword
"First Wesleyan edition."