Speaking clearly improving voice and diction by Hahner, Jeffrey C.

Speaking clearly Improving voice and diction by HahnerlhJeffrey C

English Critical Essays: Nineteenth Century

“…Poetry and poetic diction, by W. Wordsworth -- Wordsworth's theory of diction, by S. …”
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English literary criticism by Vaughan, Charles Edwyn, 1854-1922

“…Introduction -- Sir Philip Sidney: An apology for poetry -- John Dryden: Preface to the Fables -- Samuel Johnson: On the metaphysical poets -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: On poetic genius and poetic diction -- William Hazlitt: On poetry in general -- Charles Lamb: On the artificial comedy of the last century -- On Webster's 'Duchess of Malfi' -- On Ford's 'Broken heart' -- Percy Bysshe Shelley: A defence of poetry -- Thomas Carlyle: Goethe -- Walter Pater: Sandro Botticelli.…”
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A writer's companion by Marius, Richard

Classical rhetoric for the modern student by Corbett, Edward P.J

Table of Contents: “…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. …”