Learning to Curse
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 3, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780415901741
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; General; History - General History
First sentence: At the close of Musophilus, Samuel Daniel's brooding philosophical poem of 1599, the poet's spokesman, anxious and uncertain through much of the dialogue in the face of his opponent's skepticism, at last rises to a ringing defense of eloquence, and particularly English eloquence, culminating in a vision of its future possibilities: And who in time knowes whither we may vent