A Handbook to LiteratureMacmillan, 1986 - 647 pages "Based on the original edition by William Flint Thrall and Addison Hibbard." Alphabetic entries define, explain, and illustrate terms associated with American and English literature. |
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ACCENT ACTION American APPRENTICESHIP NOVEL BALLAD Bible born called CHARACTER cism CLASSICAL COMEDY COMEDY OF MANNERS conventional COUPLET CRITICISM developed DRAMA early edition effect eighteenth century elements Elizabethan emotional England English Literature EPIC ESSAY example expression Ezra Pound FICTION French George Gerard Manley Hopkins Gothic Novel Greek Henry heroic human I. A. Richards IAMBIC idea James John Johnson language Latin lines Literary History LYRIC meaning medieval Metaphysical Poetry metrical Middle English modern moral movement NARRATIVE nature NEOCLASSICISM nineteenth century NOVEL Outline of Literary PASTORAL pattern Period person PLAY PLOT POEM poetic POETRY POETS popular PROSE reader realistic References RENAISSANCE reprinted rhetorical RHYME Rhyme Royal RHYTHM Robert romantic ROMANTICISM SATIRE sense Shakespeare SHORT STORY sometimes SONG SONNET speech STANZA stressed syllable STRUCTURE STYLE T. S. Eliot theater theory Thomas tion tradition TRAGEDY TROCHEE usually VERSE W. H. Auden William words writers written