The Senecan amble : a study in prose form from Bacon to Collier
1966, 1st Phoenix edition. Chicago : University of Chicago Press ; Phoenix Books. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #402198
Physical description: 377 pages ; 20 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Preface to Anti-Ciceronianism -- The rhetorical forms of style -- Schematic prose and pointed prose -- Aculeate style and the cult of form -- Lipsius his hopping style -- Bacon and stoic rhetoric -- Pointed style after Bacon -- Scheme and point in pulpit oratory -- Reform and the royal society -- Polishing the English tongue -- Pert style in neo-classic times. Subjects: Geschichte 1600-1700; English prose literature; History and criticism; English prose literature History and criticism Early modern, 1500-1700.
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