The Elements of Style: An Introduction to Literary Criticism

artist beauty chapter character characteristic chief clear complex composition consider conventional course criticism deal definite difficult distinguished divisions drama effect element English epithets essay essential evident exposition expression extent fact fashion feel fiction fitness give hand historian human ideal imagination important individuality intelligence interest kind language least less literary literature logic lucidity lyrical marked matter meaning mere metaphor moral motive movement narrative nature novel novelist object old-fashioned original paragraph perhaps philosopher phrases play plot poem poet poetic poetry possible present principles produce progress proper prose qualities question reader realise regard rhetoric scientific seems seen sense sentences short speak speech student style succession suggestion taste theme things thought timeless tion translation treatise true truth unity verse whole words writer written