College Composition (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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As the Greeks thus distinguished by its method a speech of Demosthenes from a drama of Sophocles, we may distin guish not only Bacon's essays from Shakspere's plays, but The Imitation of Christ from Pilgrim's Progress, or a speech on prison reform from Dickens's Little Dorrit. For the two fold division underlies a great variety of literary forms. It has no reference to details, as of prose or verse. Scott's stories, whether in prose or in verse, all alike come under the second head. Except in a few essays, Scott was always a writer of images. Indeed, the classification is not prima rily of literary forms, but rather 'of literary method, of com position in the most general sense. In this broad sense, most prose writing and speaking may be classified either as discussion or as story.

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