TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watson,George
TI  - Literary English since Shakespeare
AV  - PR83 .W38 1970
PY  - 1970///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English language
KW  - Style
KW  - Style, Literary
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; The current scene in linguistics, by N. Chomsky.--Realism and the three styles, by E. Auerbach.--The meaning of "literal," by O. Barfield.--On sentence-length, by G. U. Yule.--Monosyllabic lines and words, by A. C. Bradley.--Shakespeare and the language of poetry, by O. Jespersen.--The Baroque style in prose, by M. W. Croll.--Jonson's dramatic prose, by J. A. Barish.--The language of the metaphysicals, by G. Watson.--Milton and the vocabulary of verse and prose, by H. S. Davies.--Science and English prose style, by R. F. Jones.--The style of Dryden's prose, by W. P. Ker.--Pope and the syntax of satire, by J. P. W. Rogers.--Swift and syntactical connection, by L. T. Milic.--Irony in Eighteenth-Century fiction, by W. C. Booth.--The consistency of Johnson's style, by W. K. Wimsatt.--Syntax in Wordsworth's Prelude, by D. Davie.--Scott's linguistic vagaries, by E. M. W. Tillyard.--The language of the Victorians, by F. W. Bateson.--On Dickens, by W. A. Ward.--Dialect in the novels of Hardy and George Eliot, by P. Ingham.--The first paragraph of James's Ambassadors, by I. Watt.--The holy language of modernism, by D. Donoghue
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