Poets' Grammar

First published in 1958, Poets’ Grammar treats of a few grammatical forms and inflexions as they function in the work of some English poets and dramatists. For this purpose, the author is less concerned with the primary meaning of the word Grammar, as given by Shorter Oxford Dictionary , namely “that department of the study of language which deals with its inflexional forms or their equivalents with the rules for employing these correctly”, than with that subordinate meaning of the word, as defi