On English Prose

Author:   James R. Sutherland
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
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9781487585495


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   15 December 1957
Format:   Paperback
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The 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.

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Author:   James R. Sutherland
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.180kg
ISBN:  

9781487585495


ISBN 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
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“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"


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James 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.

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