The Art of Rhetoric: (1560) Thomas Wilson

by Thomas Wilson

Book Overview

"A learned work of rhetoric . . . compiled and made in the English tongue, of [one] who in judgment is profound, in wisdom and eloquence most famous." Thus in 1563 rhetorician Richard Rainolde praised The Art of Rhetoric, the work that brought into English the procedures of Ciceronian rhetoric-invention, disposition, style, memory, and delivery--the core of the academic curriculum in Renaissance England. Written in vigorous, native English, the Art...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271009411
• ISBN13: 9780271009414
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"