Representative essays on the theory of style.
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 1905
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Literature -- Composition and style
Table of contents: title: John Henry Newman - Literature; Thomas De Quincey - Style; Herbert Spencer - The philosophy of style; George Henry Lewes - The principles of success in literature, The principle of beauty, The laws of style; Robert Louis Stevenson - Style in literature, its technical elements; Walter Pater - Style; Frederic Harrison - On English prose; Notes and questions; List of books cited in the introduction and notes.