Literary English since Shakespeare.
By: Edited by George Watson.
Series: A Galaxy book, GB 314
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.; English language -- Great Britain -- Style.; Style, Literary.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The current scene in linguistics, by N. Chomsky.; title: Realism and the three styles, by E. Auerbach.; title: The meaning of "literal," by O. Barfield.; title: On sentence-length, by G. U. Yule.; title: Monosyllabic lines and words, by A. C. Bradley.; title: Shakespeare and the language of poetry, by O. Jespersen.; title: The Baroque style in prose, by M. W. Croll.; title: Jonson's dramatic prose, by J. A. Barish.; title: The language of the metaphysicals, by G. Watson.; title: Milton and the vocabulary of verse and prose, by H. S. Davies.; title: Science and English prose style, by R. F. Jones.; title: The style of Dryden's prose, by W. P. Ker.; title: Pope and the syntax of satire, by J. P. W. Rogers.; title: Swift and syntactical connection, by L. T. Milic.; title: Irony in Eighteenth-Century fiction, by W. C. Booth.; title: The consistency of Johnson's style, by W. K. Wimsatt.; title: Syntax in Wordsworth's Prelude, by D. Davie.; title: Scott's linguistic vagaries, by E. M. W. Tillyard.; title: The language of the Victorians, by F. W. Bateson.; title: On Dickens, by W. A. Ward.; title: Dialect in the novels of Hardy and George Eliot, by P. Ingham.; title: The first paragraph of James's Ambassadors, by I. Watt.; title: The holy language of modernism, by D. Donoghue.