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.
| ISBN: | 9781487585495 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 1957 |
| Author: | James R Sutherland |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 136 pages |
| Series: | Heritage |
| Genres: |
Language: reference and general Anthologies: general Literature: history and criticism |
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.
On English Prose features in the following genres: Language: reference and general, Anthologies: general, Literature: history and criticism
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On English Prose was written by James R Sutherland and published by University of Toronto Press
On English Prose has 136 pages
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