Title: A history of English prose rhythm
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.
Subjects: English language, Style, History and criticism, Rhythm, English prose literature, English prose literature, history and criticism, English language, style