VERY LITERARY
DICTIONARY OF WORLD LITERARY TERMS, edited by Joseph T. Shipley; Allen and Unwin Ltd., Enf§glish price 30/-, ITERARY critics have an offhand way of using terms, sometimes familiar and sometimes obscure, which the reader is expected to understand. There may be no difficulty with "symbolism," "sturm und drang," "the higher criticism" or "impressionism"; but "empathy’ may be looked at more doubtfully; "hypostatization" may send one not very hopefully to a dictionary; and "episyntheton" could bring even a poet to a standstill. Such difficulties were removed when Joseph T. Shipley’s dictionary first appeared. In the second edition some articles have been, expanded, a few have been excluded, and new terms have been added. Literary students should find the book useful for reference, and even for sustained read--ing-though a course in this sort of thing will not necessarily turn them into critics.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 14
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142VERY LITERARY New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 14
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