Author: Anderson, Judith H.
Title: Words That Matter : Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1996). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xi, 338 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Frozen Words; Latin & Lexicons; The Definitive Word; Stones Well Squared: Definition in 'The Forrest' & 'The Faerie Queen'; ; Magic & Metaphor: Tree Rings in the Renaissance Arboretrum; Weighing Words: The Giant's Scales; Donne's Pre-deliberations, or Scaling the Heights; Donne's Final Word or Last Character: Life Lived & Life Written.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Renaissance, English Literature, John Donne, Language, Tudor, Stuart, Rhetoric History, Linguistic