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Diction
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Diction

Garrett Stewart
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry
Oxford Handbooks of Literature, Oxford University Press
10/31/2013
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199576463.013.005

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Abstract

This article examines the concept of diction in Victorian poetry. It begins by providing three examples that illustrate over a century of word use in poetry, from Romantic to modernist. The discussions then turn to poetic diction, choice of words, lexical engineering, syllabic distribution, doubled diction, split diction, spliced diction, and slipped diction.
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