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The Reader over Your Shoulder : A Handbook for Writers of English Prose.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : RosettaBooks, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (647 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780795350467
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Reader over Your ShoulderDDC classification:
  • 808
LOC classification:
  • PR751 .G738 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction by Patricia T. O'Conner -- Part I: The Reader Over Your Shoulder -- 1. The Peculiar Qualities of English -- 2. The Present Confusion of English Prose -- 3. Where Is Good English to Be Found? -- 4. The Use and Abuse of Official English -- 5. The Beginnings of English Prose -- 6. The Ornate and Plain Styles -- 7. Classical Prose -- 8. Romantic Prose -- 9. Recent Prose -- 10. The Principles of Clear Statement-I -- 11. The Principles of Clear Statement-II -- 12. The Principles of Clear Statement-III -- 13. The Graces of Prose -- Part II: Examinations and Fair Copies -- Sir Norman Angell -- Irving Babbitt -- Earl Baldwin of Bewdley -- Clive Bell -- Viscount Castlerosse (later the Earl of Kenmare) -- Bishop of Chichester -- G. D. H. Cole -- Marquess of Crewe -- Dr. Hugh Dalton, M.P. -- Daphne Du Maurier -- Sir Arthur Eddington -- T. S. Eliot -- Lord Esher -- Admiral C. J. Eyres -- Negley Farson -- Major-Gen. J. F. C. Fuller -- Major-Gen. Sir Charles Gwynn -- Viscount Halifax -- Cicely Hamilton -- 'Ian Hay' -- Ernest Hemingway -- Aldous Huxley -- Prof. Julian Huxley -- Paul Irwin -- Sir James Jeans -- Prof. C. E. M. Joad -- Senator Hiram Johnson -- J. M. Keynes (later Lord Keynes) -- Com. Stephen King-Hall -- Dr. F. R. Leavis -- Cecil Day Lewis -- Desmond MacCarthy -- Brig.-Gen. J. H. Morgan, K.C. -- J. Middleton Murry -- Sir Cyril Norwood -- 'Observator' -- An Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary -- Eric Partridge -- 'Peterborough' -- Ezra Pound -- J. B. Priestley -- D. N. Pritt, K.C., M.P. -- Herbert Read -- I. A. Richards -- Bertrand Russell -- Viscount Samuel -- George Bernard Shaw -- Stephen Spender -- J. W. N. Sullivan -- Helen Waddell -- Sir Hugh Walpole -- H. G. Wells -- Prof. A. N. Whitehead -- Sir Leonard Woolley.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction by Patricia T. O'Conner -- Part I: The Reader Over Your Shoulder -- 1. The Peculiar Qualities of English -- 2. The Present Confusion of English Prose -- 3. Where Is Good English to Be Found? -- 4. The Use and Abuse of Official English -- 5. The Beginnings of English Prose -- 6. The Ornate and Plain Styles -- 7. Classical Prose -- 8. Romantic Prose -- 9. Recent Prose -- 10. The Principles of Clear Statement-I -- 11. The Principles of Clear Statement-II -- 12. The Principles of Clear Statement-III -- 13. The Graces of Prose -- Part II: Examinations and Fair Copies -- Sir Norman Angell -- Irving Babbitt -- Earl Baldwin of Bewdley -- Clive Bell -- Viscount Castlerosse (later the Earl of Kenmare) -- Bishop of Chichester -- G. D. H. Cole -- Marquess of Crewe -- Dr. Hugh Dalton, M.P. -- Daphne Du Maurier -- Sir Arthur Eddington -- T. S. Eliot -- Lord Esher -- Admiral C. J. Eyres -- Negley Farson -- Major-Gen. J. F. C. Fuller -- Major-Gen. Sir Charles Gwynn -- Viscount Halifax -- Cicely Hamilton -- 'Ian Hay' -- Ernest Hemingway -- Aldous Huxley -- Prof. Julian Huxley -- Paul Irwin -- Sir James Jeans -- Prof. C. E. M. Joad -- Senator Hiram Johnson -- J. M. Keynes (later Lord Keynes) -- Com. Stephen King-Hall -- Dr. F. R. Leavis -- Cecil Day Lewis -- Desmond MacCarthy -- Brig.-Gen. J. H. Morgan, K.C. -- J. Middleton Murry -- Sir Cyril Norwood -- 'Observator' -- An Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary -- Eric Partridge -- 'Peterborough' -- Ezra Pound -- J. B. Priestley -- D. N. Pritt, K.C., M.P. -- Herbert Read -- I. A. Richards -- Bertrand Russell -- Viscount Samuel -- George Bernard Shaw -- Stephen Spender -- J. W. N. Sullivan -- Helen Waddell -- Sir Hugh Walpole -- H. G. Wells -- Prof. A. N. Whitehead -- Sir Leonard Woolley.

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