Stylistics of Poetry

Peter Verdonk is Emeritus Professor of Stylistics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His books include Twentieth-century Poetry (1993) and Stylistics (2002), Literature and the New Interdisciplinarity (1994, with Roger D. Sell), Twentieth-century Fiction (1995, with Jean Jacques Weber), and Exploring the Language of Drama (1998, with Jonathan Culpeper and Mick Short).

This collection of essays by Peter Verdonk is a joy to read on a number of levels. Verdonk presents his arguments clearly and in a logically coherent sequence ... and [writes] with ease and elegance

• Preface \ Acknowledgments \ 1. Introduction: Context, Cognition, Discourse, History: Peter Verdonk's Stylistics of Poetry, Dan McIntyre \ 2. Poetic Artifice and Literary Stylistics \ 3. "We have art in order that we may not perish from truth" : The Universe of Discourse in Auden's 'Musée des Beaux Arts' \ 4. Who are the Performers of Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth"? \ 5. The Language of Poetry: The Application of Literary Stylistic Theory in University Teaching \ 6. Poems as Text and Discourse: The Poetics of Philip Larkin \ 7. Poetry and Public Life: a Contextualized Reading of Seamus Heaney's 'Punishment' \ 8. The Liberation of the Icon: A Brief Survey from Classical Rhetoric to Cognitive Stylistics \ 9. Painting, Poetry, Parallelism: Ekphrasis, Stylistics and Cognitive Poetics \ 10. Style \ 11. A Cognitive Stylistic Readng of Rhetorical Patterns in Ted Hughes's 'Hawk Roosting': A Possible Role for Stylistics in a Literary Critical Controversy \ Bibliography \ Index