On the art of writing 🔍
by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch New York: Putnam, New York, New York State, 1943
English [en] · PDF · 10.0MB · 1943 · 📗 Book (unknown) · 🚀/ia · Save
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A series of lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1913 and 1914, according to the Preface the text is pretty close to unchanged from the text of the lectures.
The twelve chapters are entitled:
- Inaugural
- The Practice of Writing
- On the Difference between Verse and Prose
- On the Capital Difficulty of Verse
- Interlude: On Jargon
- On the Capital Difficulty of Prose
- Some Principles Reaffirmed
- On the Lineage of English Literature 1
- On the Lineage of English Literature 2
- English Literature in Our Universities 1
- English Literature in Our Universities 2
- On Style
There is also an Index.
Alternative author
Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir, 1863-1944
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302 p. ; 20 cm
date open sourced
2023-06-28
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