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JOHN FRANKLIN GENUNG, PH.D.,

Professor of Rhetoric at Amherst College

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General Introduction The English Essay and

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English Prose Style :

I. Historical Review

II. Style, or the Artistic Element in Prose.

III. The Possibilities of Prose

I. BACON: Master of Condensation

Of Studies (version of 1597)

Of Studies (version of 1625)

Of Truth

Of Friendship

II. SWIFT: the Greatest English Satirist

A Tale of a Tub.

The Bookseller's Dedication to the Right

Honourable John Lord Somers

The Epistle Dedicatory to His Royal

Highness Prince Posterity

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III. ADDISON: First of the Humorists

Sir Roger De Coverley in the Country.

Sir Roger at Home

Sir Roger and Will Wimble.

Sir Roger at Church

The Man of the Town

The Fan Exercise

IV. LAMB: Greatest of the Humorists

Letter to Coleridge

A Dissertation upon Roast Pig

Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist

Poor Relations

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Sect. II-The Vision of Sudden Death

Sect. III- Dream-Fugue: Founded

on the Preceding Theme of Sudden

Death.

Levana and Our Ladies of

(Suspiria de Profundis).

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Sorrow

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VIII. MACAULAY: the Rhetorician

The Puritans (Essay on Milton)

Boswell's "Life of Johnson"

The Perfect Historian (Essay on His-

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IX. RUSKIN: the Impassioned Critic .

Sea-Painting (Modern Painters, Vol. I.)

The Virtues of Architecture (Stones of

Venice, Vol. II.).

The Crown of Wild Olive (Introduction

or Preface).

X. MATTHEW ARNOLD: the Intellectual Critic 379

Sweetness and Light (Culture and Anarchy) 382