A history of English prose rhythm
By: by George Saintsbury.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: English language -- Rhythm.; English prose literature -- History and criticism.; English language -- Style.
Description: This scholarly exploration of meter and rhythm begins with ancient Greece and Rome; moving through Old and Middle English; Chaucer; the ornate and plain styles; Edmund Burke; the great novelists of the nineteenth century such as Austen, Dickens, and Thackeray; the lyrical prose of John Ruskin; and more. It is one of the very few full-length studies of prose rhythm.
Notes: Reprint of the 1912 ed.