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Evolution of Our Language
Allen, Walter | November 17, 1956 issue

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This article presents information on the book "The Pelican Book of English Prose," edited by Kenneth Allott. This five-volume anthology surveys the course of English prose from 1550 to 1880. Allott has eased the implicit difficulty by sharing out the whole tract of time to be covered among five scholars each of whom is responsible for a volume and writes an introduction to it. The emphasis on plain prose comes out in the structure of the work, which is constant from volume to volume. The stress throughout is on the functional nature of prose.

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PELICAN Book of English Prose, The (Book); ALLOTT, Kenneth; PROSE literature; SCHOLARS; BOOKS; INTELLECTUALS
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