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Poetry, Language And Communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Olga McDonald Meidner
Affiliation:
University of Natal.

Extract

In the recent article Poetry, Language and Communication by Bernard Mayo, the author, intending to establish new distinctions between poetry and other uses of language, has overshot the mark, and arrived at a completely obscurantist view of poetry.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1955

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