Tom Jones teaches English at the University of St Andrews, specialising in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, and poetic theory and practice. He is the author of Pope and Berkeley: The Language of Poetry and Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and essays on Pope, Berkeley, eighteenth-century philosophies of language, and contemporary poetry and poetics.

Fully and carefully documented, this study builds on the work of scholars such as Jan Mukarovsky, Derek Attridge, and Julia Kristeva. Recommended.

• Acknowledgements; How to use this book; 1. Introduction; 2. Figure: Ralegh; 3. Selection: Cowper; 4. Measure: Wordsworth; 5. Equivalence: Hopkins; 6. Spirit: Stevens; 7. Spirit: O’Hara; 8. Measure: Creeley; 9. Deviance: Graham; 10. Figure: Raworth; 11. Selection: Riley; 12. Equivalence: Clark; 13. Epilogue: Deviance: Creeley; Further Reading.

Tom Jones teaches English at the University of St Andrews, specialising in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, and poetic theory and practice. He is the author of Pope and Berkeley: The Language of Poetry and Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and essays on Pope, Berkeley, eighteenth-century philosophies of language, and contemporary poetry and poetics.

Fully and carefully documented, this study builds on the work of scholars such as Jan Mukarovsky, Derek Attridge, and Julia Kristeva. Recommended.

• Acknowledgements; How to use this book; 1. Introduction; 2. Figure: Ralegh; 3. Selection: Cowper; 4. Measure: Wordsworth; 5. Equivalence: Hopkins; 6. Spirit: Stevens; 7. Spirit: O’Hara; 8. Measure: Creeley; 9. Deviance: Graham; 10. Figure: Raworth; 11. Selection: Riley; 12. Equivalence: Clark; 13. Epilogue: Deviance: Creeley; Further Reading.

Tom Jones teaches English at the University of St Andrews, specialising in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, and poetic theory and practice. He is the author of Pope and Berkeley: The Language of Poetry and Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and essays on Pope, Berkeley, eighteenth-century philosophies of language, and contemporary poetry and poetics.

Fully and carefully documented, this study builds on the work of scholars such as Jan Mukarovsky, Derek Attridge, and Julia Kristeva. Recommended.

• Acknowledgements; How to use this book; 1. Introduction; 2. Figure: Ralegh; 3. Selection: Cowper; 4. Measure: Wordsworth; 5. Equivalence: Hopkins; 6. Spirit: Stevens; 7. Spirit: O’Hara; 8. Measure: Creeley; 9. Deviance: Graham; 10. Figure: Raworth; 11. Selection: Riley; 12. Equivalence: Clark; 13. Epilogue: Deviance: Creeley; Further Reading.