The Science of Poetry and the Philosophy of Language - Paperback

by Hudson Maxim (Author), William Oberhardt (Illustrator)

1910. Contents: Foundation Principles; The Evolution of Analogical Speech; The Crossing of the Rubicon of Trope Separating Man from the Brute; What is Poetry?; What Poetry Is Not; Potentry; Application of the Fundamental Principles of Composition and Rhetoric-Potentry, Tropetry, Literatry, Tro-Potentry, Tem-Potentry, and Tro-tem-potentry; The Dynamics of Human Speech; The Philosophy of English Verse (Tem-Potentry); Tropetry (Poetry); Applied Tro-tem-potentry (Verse-Poetry); Applied Tro-potentry (Elocution-Eloquence-Oratory); and Great Poetic Lines.