... starkly from our modern liberal myth of artistic freedom. For Dante, poetic license is rule-bound, case-specific, and an expression of the continuing relevance of tradition. The chapter takes issue in particular with Ernst Kantorowicz’s reading of the coronation scene atop Mount Purgatory as an allegory...

... with the contingencies of history. Whether considering legal or literary laws, judicial discretion or poetic license, Dante explores through his poetry the imaginative preconditions underlying “regulated exceptions.” Above all, in his response to the institutional crises of Church and Empire, he recognizes that poetic...

... writing, including poetic freedom and poetic license, to advance and defend a distinctively English poetic tradition. When Tudor poets did meet with censure, it was for writing that too closely touched the honor of powerful courtiers. William Baldwin Mirror for Magistrates literary censorship George...

... Toomer Jean Hammer Langdon lexical errors children Shakespeare William Blackmur R P correction of errors revision accidents Hart Crane poetic license error Voyages mistake language poetry neologisms Harold Hart Crane might have been an excellent speller. A letter from the ten-year-old...

...This chapter explores the realm of the popular imagination, focusing on the often wildly exaggerated and exoticized image of Tantra in Victorian novels and Indian popular literature. It examines the rich confluence of Orientalist constructions, colonial paranoia, and poetic license that fed...

... mistake have tended to shift according to readers' own notions of propriety and its value, the broader question of how to distinguish error from poetic license is nearly as old as poetry itself. Aristotle poses it at length in the Poetics. The nub for Aristotle seems to lie in whether...

...Poetry enjoys greater liberties (“poetic license”) than all other uses of language to depart from a variety of grammatical and discourse-semantic constraints that typically shape verbal messages. At the same time, poetry frequently conforms to additional formal constraints on the selection...