The Diction of Poetry from Spenser to Bridges

adjectives admired Æneid appears archaic archaisms Arnold associations ballad beauty borrowed Browning Browning's Byron characteristic Chatterton Coleridge colour compound epithets couplet Cowper critic Dryden earlier early effect eighteenth century Elizabethan English poetry epic epithets example in O.E.D. expressions Faerie Queene favourite feature feeling Homer imagination imitation instance interest John Dryden Johnson Keats Keats's kind language later Latin less lines literary Lycidas manner metre Milton mood names Nature Night nouns occurs original Paradise Lost passages passion pastoral perhaps periphrasis phrases plays poem poet's poetic diction poetic style poets Pope Pope's prefix prose quotations quoted rare words reader repeated rhyme Robert Bridges romantic Rossetti satire Scholar Gipsy sense Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's Shepheardes Calender simplicity sometimes sonnet Spenser Spenser's diction Spenserian spirit stanza suggested Swinburne Sylvester taste Tennyson Thomson tion tradition translation true verb verbal verse vocabulary Wordsworth writing