A review of David E. Cooper's 'Metaphor' (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986), in which Cooper's approach is rejected, but the book is nevertheless considered one of the best on the enormous theme of metaphorology. The book deals with all the classical topics relating to metaphor, a brief outline of which is provided. (Copyright 1994, Sociological Abstracts, inc., all rights reserved.) (B. Annesser Murray in LLBA 1994, vol. 28, n. 5)