Download or read book Purity of Diction in English Verse and Articulate Energy written by Donald Davie and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purity of Diction in English Verse (1952) explains how the vocabulary choice of late 18th-century writers like Cowper, Goldsmith and Dr Johnson gave them a force and moral value different from Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley.