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The poetry of our century particularly requires a theory of the devices of artifice, such as apparently nonsensical imagery, logical discontinuity, referential opacity, and unusual metrical and spatial organisation, and an account of the relationships between various strata of artifice. The question always is: how do poems work?
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Forrest-Thomson, V. (1992). From Poetic Artifice. In: Riley, D. (eds) Poets on Writing. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22048-9_31
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