Sentences with phrase «poetic diction»
See especially Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning (McGraw - Hill Book Company, Inc., 1964), and his «The Meaning of the Word «Literal,»» in L. C. Knights and Basil Cottle, eds., Metaphor and Symbol (Butterworth & Co., Ltd., 1961).
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Barfield's «poetic diction» parallels the later Heidegger's call for a true «naming of the Gods» which would be a poetic, rather than metaphysical, «dwelling on the earth.»
It is regrettable that they should be marred by the recurrent slippage in poetic diction, the indulgence in heightening paraphrase in the guise of translation, and the instances of tendentiousness and anachronism.
The decision to give preference to the Anglo - Saxon elements of English vocabulary over the Latinate ones has the happy effect of creating a poetic diction that frequently recalls the compactness, the concreteness, and the muscularity of the Hebrew.
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We owe him a great debt also for his literary gifts, for what might have been a mere piecing together in a unified whole in which one feels that Jesus» poetic, moving diction has been marvelously preserved.