Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples for the Use of Common Schools and Academies

Harper & Brothers, 1851

Of Varieties of Verse	ix

PART	16

Remarks on its Importance and Necessity	21

Variety of Construction	27

Variety of Arrangement continued	34

Composition	41

Genius	42

Taste	43

Essays and Philosophy	133

SECT I Orations	134

Criticisms on Everett Webster Calhoun and Clav	136

English Literature under the Tudors and the first Stuarts	197

CH VII SEC III Samuel Butler Author of Hudibras	219

Young	220

Dr Samuel Johnson his Criticism on Milton	222

Alexander Pope	223

SECT I Beauty and Sublinity in Nature	46

Beautiful and Sublime in Writing	50

STYLE IX Of Style and Idiom	51

Of different Kinds of Style	52

Perspicuity	53

Purity	54

Propriety	56

Precision	59

Perspicuity in the Structure of Sentences	61

Of Clearness	62

Of Unity	65

Of Strength	68

Of Harmony	71

Of Sound united to the Sense	74

Choice of Words with a View to Energy and Vivacity	76

Critical Examination of Sentences	77

OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE XXIII Of Figurative Language	78

Of Simile	80

Of Metaphor	82

Of Allegory	86

Of Personification	88

Of Apostrophe	90

Of Metonymy and Synecdoche	92

Of Climax and Enumeration	93

Of Antithesis	95

Of Hyperbole and Irony	97

Of Interrogation and Exclamation	100

Of Vision and Alliteration	101

Of additional Secondary Tropes	102

Of Miscellaneous Figures of Speech	104

Of Allusions	105

Of Wit	108

Language	111

PART III	113

Of Letters	114

Letterwriting continued	117

Specimens of Letterwriting	120

Of Dialogue and Enigmas	129

Of History	130

Thomas Gray	227

James Beattie	229

Thomson	230

Cowper	232

Oliver Goldsmith 236	236

George Crabbe	237

Thomas Campbell	239

Mark Akenside	241

Samuel T Coleridge	242

Robert Southey	245

James Montgomery	248

Lord Byron	250

Robert Pollok	253

Mrs F D Hemans	255

Henry Kirke White	257

William Wordsworth	259

Thomas Moore	265

Robert Burns	266

Sir Walter Scott	274

PART VII	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

Rules of Method in the Pursuit and Communication	328

Title	Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples for the Use of Common Schools and Academies
Compiled by	James Robert Boyd
Edition	7
Publisher	Harper & Brothers, 1851
Original from	University of Chicago
Digitized	23 Mar 2015

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