No Dialect Please, You're a Poet

English Dialect in Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries

• Author(s): Claire Hélie, Elise Brault-Dreux, Emilie Loriaux,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 220
• ISBN_10: 1000124207
  ISBN_13: 9781000124200
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / Modern / General , Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature , Literary Collections / General , Literary Criticism / General , Poetry / General ,

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No Dialect Please, You're a Poet is situated at the crossroads in research areas of literature and linguistics. This collection of essays brings to the forefront the many ways in which dialect is present in poetry and how it is realized in both written texts and oral performances. In examining works from a wide range of poets and poetries, from acclaimed poets to emerging ones, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to poetics of dialects from a variety of regions, across two centuries of English poetry.