The Science of Poetry and the Philosophy of Language

The cover is maroon with black and goldtone letters and circles. 294 pages; 12 chapters; 16 plates of b/w illustrations; index. Below his signature, the author wrote Maxim Park, Oct. 10th, 1910. The chapters' titles are Foundation Principles, The Evolution of Analogical Speech, What is Poetry?, What Poetry is Not, Potentry, Application of the Fundamental Principles of Composition and Rhetoric, The Dynamics of Human Speech, The Philosophy of English Verse (Tem-Potentry), Tropetry (Poetry), Applied Tro-Tem-Potenry (Verse-Poetry), Applied Tro-Potentry, and Breat Poetic Lines. The cloth has rubbed spots. The text block ends have darkened. The front endpaper and front blank page have stains. The endpapers' folds are split. A tissue guard is missing from one plate. Most of the tissue guards and the pages that face the plates have foxing. Most of the plates aren't as affected. Scans e-mailed upon request. International shipping will require extra shipping cost.