DONALD
ROSS
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rossj001@tc.umn.edu
Department of English, University of Minnesota
"Stylistics and the Testing of Literary Hypotheses,"
Poetics, 7 (1978), 389-416.
The approach to style which informs this study follows the
broadly-outlined suggestions of Enkvist, "the style of a text is a
function of the aggregate of the ratios between the frequencies of
its phonological, grammatical and lexical items, and the frequencies
of the corresponding items in a contextually related norm." The paper
includes three separate studies. The first concludes that, among
Romantic poems, there is a great deal of similarity between poems by
Keats's odes and sonnets and Coleridge's "conversation poems," in
contrast to those of other poems from the era. The second examines
Wordsworth's 1815 Preface to distinguish stylistically between
Romantic poems which are lyrics, and others which are "idyls." The
final study shows the differences in styles between Keats's sonnets
and a sample of sonnets by five Elizabethan poets.
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