Learning to Curse
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 14, 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780415903523
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