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The varying patterns in the development of English prose from the discursiveness of the fourteenth century to the directness of the twentieth are outlined in this book, which comprises the Alexander Lectures for 1956-57. As he traces the course of English prose history, the author quotes, for example and analysis, from Sidney, Lyly, Bacon, Hooker, Bunyan, Hobbes, Dryden, Meredith, James, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and others.Sutherland, James R. is the author of 'On English Prose' with ISBN 9780313250958 and ISBN 0313250952.
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