The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume VI, Familiar Letters by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

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Excursions and Poems The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20) by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

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The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20) by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

“…Victor Hugo's romances -- Some aspects of Robert Burns -- Walt Whitman -- Henry David Thoreau -- Yoshida-Torajiro -- François Villon, student, poet, and house-breaker -- Charles of Orleans -- Samuel Pepys -- John Knox and women.…”
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Classical rhetoric for the modern student by Corbett, Edward P.J

Table of Contents: “…. -- Analysis of the arrangements of "Letter from Birmingham jail -- "Civil disobedience" / Henry David Thoreau -- IV. Style -- Grammatical competence -- Choice of diction -- An adequate vocabulary -- Purity, propriety, and precision of diction -- Composition of the sentence -- Study of style -- Kind of diction -- Length of sentences -- Kinds of sentences -- Variety of sentence patterns -- Sentence euphony -- Articulation of sentences -- Figures of speech -- Paragraphing -- A student report on a study of style -- Figures of speech -- The schemes -- The tropes -- Concluding remarks on the figures of speech -- Imitation -- Testimonies about the value of imitation -- "How the French boy learns to write" / Rollo Walter Brown -- Exercises in imitation -- Readings -- "Critical examination of the style of Mr. …”