The Primary Language of Poetry in the 1740's and 1840's
by: Josephine Miles

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light gray wrappers, 221 pages. "The words appearing most often in the volumes of poetry in the bookstalls of the 1640's were these: 4 adjectives, fair, good, great, sweet; IO nouns, day, earth, eye, god, heart, heaven, love, man, soul, time; 11 verbs, bring, come, find, give, go, know, make, see, take, tell, think. They took logical shape in complex declarative or exclamatory sentences about relationship, and they took melodic form to the beat of the iambic and the couplet." University Publication, Vol.19, No.2, pages 161-382. Previous owner's name on title page, otherwise clean.