Conversant Essays
Title | Conversant Essays PDF eBook |
Author | James McCorkle |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 608 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 9780814321003 |
Dramatic Essays
Title | Dramatic Essays PDF eBook |
Author | John Dryden |
Publisher | London : J. M. Dent, [1912, reprinted 1931] |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Criticism |
ISBN |
Bacon's Essays
Title | Bacon's Essays PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Bacon |
Publisher | London : J.W. Parker |
Pages | 568 |
Release | 1857 |
Genre | Conduct of life |
ISBN |
The English Language: Volume 1, Essays by English and American Men of Letters, 1490-1839
Title | The English Language: Volume 1, Essays by English and American Men of Letters, 1490-1839 PDF eBook |
Author | W. F. Bolton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1966-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521042802 |
This is a collection of essays about the English language by English and American men of letters, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; that is, until the rise of formal linguistic studies. The writers represented are concerned with the history, the use, the reform or the changing nature of English. Topics discussed include the defence of English as a literary language; the relationship with other languages; propriety in literary style; the psychological bases of speech; the relationship between words and things; usage; the need for academies and standards of correctness; the rise of lexicography; spelling reform; prescriptive grammar. These essays are the most important serious attempts to consider the language from various standpoints. Students of English in university departments will find this a convenient and comprehensive collection. It is also in itself an illustration of the development of the literary language.
The Lost Art of Conversation
Title | The Lost Art of Conversation PDF eBook |
Author | Horatio Sheafe Krans |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Conversation |
ISBN |
Bacon's Essays with Annotations
Title | Bacon's Essays with Annotations PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Bacon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 704 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Milton’s Inward Liberty
Title | Milton’s Inward Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | Filippo Falcone |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2014-08-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1630874930 |
What is true liberty? Milton labors to provide an answer, and his answer becomes the ruling principle behind both prose works and poetry. The scholarly community has largely read liberty in Milton retrospectively through the spectacles of liberalism. In so doing, it has failed to emphasize that the Christian paradigm of liberty speaks of an inward microcosm, a place of freedom whose precincts are defined by man's fellowship with God. All other forms of freedom relate to the outer world, be they freedom to choose the good, absence of external constraint and oppression, or freedom of alternatives. None of these is true liberty, but they are pursued by Milton in concert with true liberty. Milton's Inward Liberty attempts to address the bearing of true liberty in Milton's work through the magnifying glass of seventeenth-century theology.