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OverviewThe varying patterns in the development of English prose from the discursiveness of the fourteenth century to the directness of the twentieth are outlined in this book. The author points out that prose has always developed more slowly and uncertainly than poetry; it has often been hampered, for instance, by a notion that it was different from conversation, more elaborate and deliberate. One of the first and greatest difficulties in the development of English prose style was to create and build a language with its own rhythms against the influence of Norman French and Latin. As he traces the course of English prose history, the author quotes for example an analysis from Sidney, Lyly, Bacon, Hooker, Bunyan, Hobbes, Dryden, Defoe, Meredith, James, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and others. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James R. SutherlandPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.180kg ISBN: 9781487585495ISBN 10: 1487585497 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 15 December 1957 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews“Anybody who cares about English prose, whether as an art or as an instrument, will find [this book] provocative of thought.” Times Literary Supplement """Anybody who cares about English prose, whether as an art or as an instrument, will find [this book] provocative of thought."" Times Literary Supplement" Author InformationJames Sutherland, formerly Lord Northcliffe Professor Modern Literature at London University, was the editor of The Oxford Book of English Talk and the author of numerous books about literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |