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English Diarists
A man's diary, Margaret Willy observes, 'is the language of his most private self.' The diaries of John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys are two of the most famous examples of this language in English prose. The contrasted styles of each befits the man: Evelyn's dignified, pious, a true r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
1963.
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| Colección: | Writers and Their Work Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A man's diary, Margaret Willy observes, 'is the language of his most private self.' The diaries of John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys are two of the most famous examples of this language in English prose. The contrasted styles of each befits the man: Evelyn's dignified, pious, a true reflection of his private as of his public life; Pepys's garrulous, colloquial, racy, as he relives the emotions and experiences of that day, a perfect mirror of the inner man divested. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (52 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781837647583 1837647585 |