[lbo-talk] Prose Stylists, was profits

[Mark Bennett]

Macaulay, although a man of the 19th century, is a prime example of both
points.  His Critical and Historical Essays are a joy to read, but many, if
not most of them, would make a fair-sized book in themselves.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> i
> Michael Pollak wrote:
> >
> > I tell you, every time someone cites another passage it brings out for me
> > just how wonderful a writer Smith was.  He was one of the greatest
> > non-fiction stylists the English language has ever produced.  It's a
> > mountain of a book on the driest of topics and yet almost every paragraph
> > is a physical pleasure to read.
>
> Yes, he is a pleasure to read. But there _are_ others.
>
> Gibbon. Boxwell. Johnson. Byron (the letters).
>
> And re SA's sarcasm. Butler (and other 20th-c writers) is not allowed
> the sheer length in which whch 18th-c writers  indulged and were
> indulged. I wonder what Butler's books would be like expanded to the
> length of Smith's or Gibbon's.
>
> Carrol
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