But I Digress

The exploitation of parentheses in English printed verse

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Hardcover, 324 pages

English language

Published Feb. 23, 1991 by Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press.

ISBN:
9780198112471

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How Marvell, Coleridge and Elliot established parenthetical expression in English verse, and how Swift, Byron and Browning extended it.

2 editions

Subjects

  • English poetry -- History and criticism.
  • Poetry -- Publishing -- English-speaking countries.
  • English language -- Parenthetical constructions.
  • American poetry -- History and criticism.
  • English language -- Punctuation.
  • Digression (Rhetoric)
  • Poetics.
  • English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life.