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Updated: June 16, 2025
We must go back again to the ancients, for the reasons already stated, and also because all the details common and familiar, but true and characteristic, are banished by modern stylists, so that men are as much tricked out by our modern authors in their private life as in public.
As Victor Hugo gave the key to the modern American stylists, so did the stylists and precious few there were of Seventeen Hundred Seventy-six trace to Jean Jacques. The man who wrote the "Junius Letters" had only one model. That opening phrase of the Declaration, "We hold these truths to be self-evident." is a literal translation from Jean Jacques.
Style is engraved upon stone. All the other books about us wear out and perish, but here are your stylists still, as fresh as the day they were bought. 'Because nobody reads them! I exclaimed. 'Precisely, he said. 'There is no comfort in life in them.
Meredith lives in spite of his prolixities, and so will Conrad, but neither because they are perfect English stylists.
If you ask readers why they like Conrad, two out of three will answer, because he is a great stylist, or because he writes of the sea. I doubt the worth of such answers. Many buy books because they are written by great stylists, but few read for just that reason.
Although more celebrated for his poetry than for his prose, he is the earliest of the great modern prose stylists, and he displays high critical ability. Varied Experiences. Daniel Defoe was born in London, probably the year before the Restoration. His father, a butcher in good circumstances, sent the boy to a school in which English, instead of Latin, was the medium of instruction.
They write commands and instructions for the legates, and receive their orders only from the Pope, on whom they wait day and night. But the highest summit of glory was only attained by the two famous secretaries and stylists of Leo X: Pietro Bembo and Jacopo Sadoleto. All the chanceries did not turn out equally elegant documents.
I have sometimes had to write critical monographs on the work of great stylists. It is a perilous business! If for several months one studies the work of a contagious and delicate writer, critically and appreciatively, one is apt to shape one's sentences with a dangerous resemblance to the cadences of the author whom one is supposed to be criticising.
"But if you will let me read what you give me to show my lady, I should be greatly interested. We were talking about style in prose the other day, and I have ventured to bring you these books some of our own stylists, and some modern Frenchmen. You read French, I know." "There is nothing like the French," Dan chimed in. "We have no literature at all now.
Whether he corrected or corrupted this native gift by his famous "sedulous aping" of stylists before him is a debated question: but one quite unnecessary to touch here. It is sufficient to say that he never aped anyone in his letters, unless playfully and in a sort of concert with his correspondent.
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