Extracting modern prose examples, Dobree covers such topics as narrative, explanatory prose in science, law, philosophy, theology, among others.

This book gives a general view of comedy in the period from Etherege to Farquhar. It investigates the question of French influence, proving, however, that Restoration comedy was a natural development of late Elizabethan work.

First Published in 1964. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1964. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

`Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only regret, and anticipation terror.' Such is the state of mind in which Emily St. Aubuert - the orphaned heroine of Ann Radcliffe's 1794 gothic Classic, The Mysteries of Udolpho - finds herself after Count Montoni, her evil guardian, imprisions her in his gloomy medieval fortress in the Appenines. Terror is the order of the day inside the walls of Udolpho, as Emily struggles against Montoni's rapacious schemes and the threat of her own psychological disintegration. A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Walpole, Poe, and other writers of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of Udolpho remains one of the most important works in the history of European fiction. As the same time, with its dream-like plot and hallucinatory rendering of its characters' psychological states, it often seems strangely modern: `permanently avant-garde' in Terry Castle's words, and a profound and fascinating challenge to contemporary readers. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.

A Biography Of The Father Of Methodism, A Preacher Of The Doctrine Of Personal Salvation By Faith, With A Chronology Of His Important Life Events And A Brief Bibliography Of His Works.

A Biography Of The Father Of Methodism, A Preacher Of The Doctrine Of Personal Salvation By Faith, With A Chronology Of His Important Life Events And A Brief Bibliography Of His Works.

A Biography Of The Father Of Methodism, A Preacher Of The Doctrine Of Personal Salvation By Faith, With A Chronology Of His Important Life Events And A Brief Bibliography Of His Works.

MODERN PROSE STYLE BY BONAMY DOBRfiE OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS . . . they wholly mistake the nature of criti cism who think its business is principally to find fault. Criticism . . . was meant a standard of judging tvell the chief est part of which is, to observe those excellencies which should delight a reasonable reader. JOHN DRYDKN FIRST PUBLISHED SEPTFMBER IQ34 KUlttNlhf FEBRUARY 1935, 1939 1944, 1946, 1950 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN PREFACE THIS book is not intended for writers in general, nor for critics, though I naturally hope that some of them will find it entertaining if they read it. It is meant for anybody who takes lay interest in writing, who might perhaps be helped to understand why he likes some authors better than others it is in fact meant for those who have never thought much about writing, but like it for its own sake, as well as for what it conveys. Authors and critics will either find what I have to say commonplace and obvious, or will be irritated into disagreement. And when I say that this book is meant for such and such people, I do not mean that it was written for their instruction it was written for my own, because it gave me pleasure to think in this way about the craft that I follow. I ought to add that I have chosen my examples because they illustrate my ideas, and have not tried to work in every good writer. I have no doubt that there are many admirable writers, especially in America, whose books I have never seen but I have omitted even some which I have read since they were not to my purpose. I think, however, that any one reading my extracts will have a very fair notion of how prose is being written to-day, and I have taken my selections from as manyfields as I could. VI PREFACE I would like to offer my grateful thanks to Mr. Kenneth Sisam, whose interest in this bo6jc, and whose encouragement and advice, have helped me a great deal in the writing of it. B. D MENDHAM. June 1934. CONTENTS I frRODUCTION i PART I. DESCRIPTIVE PROSE . . . 15 i. Description of Action. Narrative. . . 15 2. Description of People . . . . . 39 3. Description of Things .... 66 PART II. EXPLANATORY PROSE . . 85 I. Science . . . . . . .85 2. Law ....... 95 3. Philosophy ...... 98 4. Morals 114 5. Theology . . . . . . .120 6. Political Science 134 7. History 142 8. Criticism 157 PART III. EMOTIVE PROSE . . .186 i . Rousing the Emotions . . . .186 PART IV. MODERN PROSE STYLE . .210 i. The New Way of Writing . . . . 210 2. Experiments . . . . . .230 Appendix . . . . . . . .250 Alphabetical List of Modern Authors Quoted ., 251 INTRODUCTION WE read for pleasure, but then we do not read for only one sort of pleasure, and we get different enjoyments from different kinds of writing. We do not, for instance, read a novel of Hardys for the same reason that we devour detective fiction. Yet perhaps even those such different forms have something in common to make us read them both they both take us away from the immediacies of our lives. As we read them we are, as it were, shut up in a box with this other world we forget the things which we have to do, while the things which fret us are miraculously dissolved. A novel by Hardy, however, tells us something about life, it reveals our own emotions to us in revealing the emotions of other people in reading it we actually live another life, gain fresh experience we are enriched. That is part of the pleasure that belongs to it.We read, then, from a variety of motives, perhaps to learn, as we do, say, Sir James Jeans The Universe Around Us we read to feel, we read to forget. Nor are these emotions separated, for we may take up a book from many impulses, all urging us at the same time. But there is one thing which we do every time we read, whether we are aware of it or not we come into contact with the personality of the writer...

A biographical and critical study. From a life so crammed with incident, Mr. Dobree has chosen those facts which seem most to bear on the poet s development in life through art.

First published in 1970. This collection of essays covers the work of Milton, Dryden, Sir John Vanburgh, Defoe, Mandeville, Joseph Addison, Laurence Sterne, Byron, Hazlitt, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Smith Surtees, Thackeray and Maria Louise (de la) Ramee better known as Ouida.