The Language of Literature: A Casebook

A. E. Housman adjectives ambiguity beauty Cambridge Celia and Rosalind chapter character Charlotte Brontë Coleridge context Copperfield criticism D. H. Lawrence David death dialogue Dickens Dickens's diction edition effect element emotional Essays example expression extract F. R. Leavis F. W. Bateson free indirect speech grammatical Greek underworld Hamlet implies instance Juliet kind language Latin Lawrence's lexical lines linguistic literary Literature London meaning melancholy Milton's Mistress mode Mood narrative natural never night normal rapport novel novelist Nurse's Oxford paragraph passage pause PETEY phrase play poem poet poetic poetry present Professor of English pronouns prose publications include question reader reading repetition rhyme rhythms scene seems sense sentence Shakespeare Sons and Lovers sound speak stanza style stylistic subjunctive suggest syntactical syntax T. S. Eliot Tennyson Tess thou thought verb verse vocabulary William Empson Women in Love wordplay words writing