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But I Digress - The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse (Hardcover, New)
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But I Digress - The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse (Hardcover, New)
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Dr Johnson disapproved of parentheses and wouldn't use them; and
for three centuries grammarians have argued that they are
subordinate, additional, unnecessary, irrelevant, and damaging to
the clarity of argument. But for Marlowe, Marvell, Swift,
Coleridge, Byron, Browning, Eliot, Geoffrey Hill, and Derek Walcott
(to name only poets) parentheses have been emphatic, original,
necessary, relevant, and essential to the clarity of argument. They
also intensify satire. Dr Lennard offers both a new history of the
poetic use of lunulae (the marks of parenthesis) from their first
appearance in England in 1494 to the present day, and detailed
case-studies of individual poets who exploited lunulae. In
combination the historical development of use and the individual's
practice in a given period reveal the impact on literary
composition of technological, philosophical, and political
pressures, and the importance for the reader of regarding
punctuation as a resource.
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