An edition of But I digress (1991)
But I digress
the exploitation of parentheses in English printed verse
By John Lennard
Publish Date
1991
Publisher
Clarendon Press,Oxford University Press
Language
eng
Pages
324
Description:
How Marvell, Coleridge and Elliot established parenthetical expression in English verse, and how Swift, Byron and Browning extended it.
subjects: History and criticism, English language, Publishing, Parenthetical constructions, Poetics, Intellectual life, Punctuation, Poetry, Digression (Rhetoric), English poetry, English poetry, history and criticism, English language, punctuation, Comparative and general Grammar, American poetry, History
People: Robert Browning (1812-1889), George Gordon Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Places: England
Times: 1494-1970