IZAAK WALTON'S PROSE STYLE
| Autor: | H. J. Oliver |
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| Rok vydání: | 1945 |
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| Zdroj: | The Review of English Studies. :280-288 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6968 0034-6551 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/res/os-xxi.84.280 |
| Popis: | One of the more interesting features of modern scholarship has been the renewal of interest in seventeenth-century prose, particularly of the less ornate kind. Critics like Mrs. Bennett 7 and Mr. Hugh Macdonald 3 have shown that there were many in the seventeenth century who distrusted rhetoric: Mr. Macdonald argues conclusively that 'there had existed throughout the first half of the century, as there had existed from the days of Chaucer, or for that matter King Alfred, a straightforward prose in which it was quite easy to say plain things plainly'. Yet even Mr. Macdonald seems to me to retain from traditional criticism one idea that will not stand close examination: the idea, namely, that Izaak Walton wrote this straightforward seventeenth-century prose 'in which it was quite easy to say plain things plainly'. Mr. Macdonald writes: 'Izaak Walton is perhaps too obvious to need mention. His vocabulary is modern and his style lucid: in fact his prose is so limpid and easy that he is perhaps sometimes overlooked, because of the difficulty of saying much about him.'4 |
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