Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples. For the Use of Common Schools and Academies. Including, Also, a Succinct History of the English Language, and of British and American Literature from the Earliest to the Present Times

Harper, 1845 - 306 páginas

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS	ix

Of Poetic Pauses	x

Of Pastoral and Descriptive Poetry	xi

Of Didactic and Lyric Poetry SECT II Examples of English Lyrics	xii

Of Epic Poetry	xiii

Of Dramatic Poetry XV Of Hymns Elegy	xiv

Perspicuity in the Structure of Sentences	xv

SPELLING	17

Descriptive Essays IV Descriptive Essays continued V Miscellaneous Essays Page	20

Variety of Construction	27

Variety of Arrangement	34

22	56

OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE	78

Of Allegory	86

Of Hyperbole and Irony	97

Of Miscellaneous Figures of Speech	104

Critical Examination of Passages containing Figurative	111

Essays and Philosophy	129

Miscellaneous Essays continued	177

PART V	180

Of the Primitive Languages of Europe	181

Of the English Language	182

Of the early History of the English Language V The Effect on it of the Saxon Conquest VI The Effect on it of the Danish Conquest VII The Effect o...	184

English Literature from the Restoration to the Reign of George III	198

English Literature of the present	199

English Novels and Romances V The English Periodical Press VI English Philosophers and Critics of the present Century BRITISH POETS Criticisms...	202

SEC III Samuel Butler Author of Hudibras	219

Young	220

Dr Samuel Johnson his Criticism on Milton	222

Thomas Gray	227

James Beattie	229

Thomson	230

Cowper	232

Oliver Goldsmith	236

Mrs F D Hemans	255

Henry Kirke White	257

William Wordsworth	259

Thomas Moore	265

Robert Burns	266

Sir Walter Scott	274

AMERICAN LITERATURE AMERICAN POETS CHAP I SECT I Poets of our Revolutionary Period	276

James K Paulding	278

Richard H Dana	280

James A Hillhouse	281

Charles Sprague	282

Charles Wilcox	283

FitzGreene Halleck	285

N P Willis	286

H Sigourney	288

Hannah F Gould	290

Lucretia and Margaret Davidson	291

J G C Brainard	292

H W Longfellow	293

John G Whittier	294

A B Street	295

E W B Canning	296

Concluding Remarks on American Poets	299

SECT I Sketch of American Literature since 1815	300

The present State of American Literature and	302

Relation to that of England 302 III Concluding Remarks upon our National Literature	305

Título	Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples. For the Use of Common Schools and Academies. Including, Also, a Succinct History of the English Language, and of British and American Literature from the Earliest to the Present Times
Autor	James Robert Boyd
Edição	4
Editora	Harper, 1845
Original de	Universidade da Columbia
Digitalizado	14 Jul 2009
Número de páginas	306 páginas

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