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  • Outlines of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres

    Document thumbnail: Outlines of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres
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    Description/Abstract:
    1854 copyrighted text. Author is credited with an M.A. and as the author of The Poets and Poetry of the Ancient Greeks. Preface credits influence of Longinus and Quintilian by way of Blair. Covers principles of taste and origin of language up to the epic and dramatic forms. Makes a (new?) distinction between rhetoric and belles-lettres. The first chapter on language covers: origin and progress of language, origin and progress of writing, structure of language (in two parts). Chapter two (style) covers: perspicuity and precision and structure of sentences (in three parts). Chapter three (figurative language) covers: origin and nature of figurative language, metaphor, hyperbole, comparison—antithesis—interrogation—etc., and general character of style. Chapter four (components of a regular discourse) covers: introduction—division—narration, argument—pathos—peroration, pronunciation and delivery. Chapter five is beauty and sublimity. Chapter six eloquence. Chapter seven different kinds of public speaking. Chapter eight poetry. Schultz Archive copy contains preface, TOC, the first chapter on taste, and the section on historical, epistolary, and fictitious writing from chapter seven.
    Creator/Author:
    Mills, Abraham, 1796-1867
    Submitter:
    Russel Durst
    Date Uploaded:
    05/24/2016
    Date Modified:
    07/30/2020
    Date Created:
    1854
    License:
    Public Domain Mark 1.0