Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Hugh Blair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1333099630 ISBN 13: 9781333099633

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Vol. 2 of 3

Aving treated, at confiderable length, of LE C T the Figures of Speech, of their origin, of XVIII their nature, and of the management of fuch of them as. Are important enough to require a'particular difc'uflion before finally difmifiing this fubjeét I think it incumbent on me to make fome obfervations concern ing the prop'er ufe of Figurative Language in general Thefe indeed, I have, in part, already anticipated But, as great errors are often committed in this pait Of Style, efpecially by young writers it may be of ufe that 'i' bring together, under one View the molt material direétions on this head.

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John Marsh is assistant professor of English at Penn State University. In addition to many articles and reviews, he is the author of You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941, which won the Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1333099630
• ISBN 13: 9781333099633
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 421