Learning to Curse
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 26, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415771603
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
Notes: Routledge Classics