Stylists on Style: A Handbook with Selections for Analysis

adjective American anaphora ancient beautiful become called century Chaucer Cicero clauses common composition connection critic Cyril Connolly diction discourse E. B. White effect elegance English English language essay example expression figures French Gertrude Stein give grammar Greek guage Harold Ross hath haue Hemingway ideas imitation inversion Johnson kind language Latin learned less Lillian Ross literary literature London Macaulay Macaulay's manner Mark Twain matter meaning merely metaphor mind modern nature never noun ornament paragraph parallel perhaps phrase plain poem poet poetic poetry propositions prose reader reason repetition rhetorical rhythm Saintsbury seems selection sense sentence Sherwood Anderson shew Sir William Temple sound speak speech stile structure style stylistic Swift syntax talk tence thing thought tion Tom Wolfe tongue translation truth verb vocabulary W. K. Wimsatt whole words writing written Yorker