English Essays: Materials and Models for Composition From the Great Essayists (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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I have thought it best to send-out this book with the minimum of annotation, because I wish to emphasise the literary uses of it and these alone. The practice of providing school editions with philological and historical notes has had the effect of drawing away attention from definitely literary study. In the Intro duction I have tried to suggest another way of dealing with the text - the study. Of the writer's methods of composition, his choice of words, his use of ornament, the structure of his sentences and paragraphs.

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