On English Prose
James R. Sutherland(Author)
Praeger Publishers Inc
Published on 23. April 1986
Book
Hardback
131 pages
978-0-313-25095-8 (ISBN)
Description
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, which comprises the Alexander Lectures for 1956-57. As he traces the course of English prose history, the author quotes, for example and analysis, from Sidney, Lyly, Bacon, Hooker, Bunyan, Hobbes, Dryden, Meredith, James, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and others.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
ISBN-13
978-0-313-25095-8 (9780313250958)
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