THE READER OVER YOUR SHOULDER: a Handbook for Writers of English Prose

by Graves, Robert; & Hodge, Alan

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1944. Hardcover; spine ends worn; spine age-darkened; otherwise good.. 4th prtg. of 1943 first issue. ||| Surveys the state of English prose; use & abuse of English; ornate & plain styles; defines `principles of clear statement.' Critiques 54 British & American authors--T.S. Eliot to Hemingway. ||| Joint authors, yet clearly bearing the marks of Robert Ranke Graves (1895-1985)--poet, critic, considered one of Britain's most versatile men of letters. His 1929 `Good-Bye to All That" was a grim, autobiographical WW-1 trench warfare classic of his service as an officer in Royal Welsh Fusiliers that caused severe physical & psychological wounds. Years later he recovered; matured into an uncompromising--at times acerbic--style of comment.