The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Volume 4Boris Ford Penguin Books, 1962 |
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... prose the wish to divert and recreate his readers as well as excite them was defeated by his wearisome manner . Though he aims , like Dryden , to write as a cultured man would talk , his style is hurried and careless , and his sentences ...
... prose the wish to divert and recreate his readers as well as excite them was defeated by his wearisome manner . Though he aims , like Dryden , to write as a cultured man would talk , his style is hurried and careless , and his sentences ...
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... prose style . It is to this virtue in particular that Sir Herbert Read draws attention in his remarks on Swift in English Prose Style : ' however widely his vision might extend , however deep his insight , his mode of expression ...
... prose style . It is to this virtue in particular that Sir Herbert Read draws attention in his remarks on Swift in English Prose Style : ' however widely his vision might extend , however deep his insight , his mode of expression ...
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... prose . Hardly any good poet in English has written bad prose ; and some English poets have been among the greatest of English prose writers . The finest prose writer of Shakespeare's time was , I think , Shakespeare himself ; Milton ...
... prose . Hardly any good poet in English has written bad prose ; and some English poets have been among the greatest of English prose writers . The finest prose writer of Shakespeare's time was , I think , Shakespeare himself ; Milton ...
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