Author: Hirsch, E.D.
Title: The Philosophy of Composition
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1977). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiii,200 pp. Slight binding corner bump, some light top page-edge soil, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Distinctive Features of Written Speech; The Normative Character of Written Speech; Progressive Tendencies in the History of Language & of Prose; Refining the Concept of Readability; The Psychological Bases of Readability; Some Practical Implications; The Valid Assessment of Writing Ability.

Keywords: English Literary Style, Language, Prose Literature, Composition, Writing, Teaching, Rhetoric, Criticism,