This document provides definitions and examples of various literary terms including poetic diction, diction, sentence structures, song, and poets such as Edmund Spenser, G.M. Hopkins, Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth, R.L. Stevenson, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Campion, John Dowland, and Thomas Hardy. It also lists the name, roll number, semester, and year of the student submitting the paper to the Department of English at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.

1. A Glossary of selected
literary terms
Name : prakruti Bhatt
Roll no : 19
Sam : 1
Year : 2012-13
Paper : 3 – Literary Theory
and Criticism
Dept. of English, M . K .S .
Bhavnagar University

2. Poetic Diction
Diction
Sentence
Words Phrases
Structures

3.  In Modern discussion , the term Poetic
diction applied especially two poets,
1. Edmund Spenser – Elizabethan age
2. G . M . Hopkins – Victorian age
“The language of the age is never the
language of poetry.” –Thomas Gray
“Essential difference between the language
of Prose and metrical Composition.” –
William Wordsworth

4. The world from a Railway
carriage
“Faster then fairies , faster then witches,
Bridges and houses , hedges and ditches;
And charging along , like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and
cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again , in the wink of an eye,
Painted station whistle by.” R.L.Stevenson

5. Song
 Definition of Song :
 16th & 17th centuries England produced
Song, Ex: Sir Thomas Wyatt,
My lute awake ! Perform the last,
Labour that thou and I shall waste,
The end that I have now begun;
For when this song is sung and past,
My lute be till, for I have done.

6.  Elizabethanperiod & Jacobean period’s
famous poets:
* Thomas Campion
* John Dowland
 19th Century – Thomas Hardy

7. Thank you…….
Submitted to,
Dept. of English,
Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University.