TY - BOOK AU - Leech,Geoffrey N TI - A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry SN - 0-582-55013-0 PY - 1969/// CY - London PB - Longman KW - LINGÜÍSTICA KW - ESCRITURA CREATIVA KW - ESTILO LITERARIO KW - CRÍTICA LITERARIA KW - POESÍA N1 - Foreword by Randolph Quirk. - General Index and Index of Sources of Exemples for Discussion; Each chapter presents examples for discussion and notes; Suggestions for Further Reading p. 229 N2 - Poetry and the Language of Past and Present - The Creative Use of Language - Varieties of Poetic Licence - Foregrounding and Interpretation - Verbal Repetition - Patterns of Sound - Metre - The Irrational in Poetry - Figurative Language - Honest Deceptions - Implications of Context - Ambiguity and Indetermination; This book is designed as an introductory course in stylistics for students of English, and is based on the author's experience of teaching the subject to first-year undergraduates. The author emphasizes that the linguistic and critical aspects of literary studies are here regarded as complementary, the first being a tool of the second ER -