English Prose Style
S06
Christopher Miller
This reading/writing course involves intensive study, discussion, and emulation of various exemplary prose stylists including Lyly, Bacon, Burton, Browne, Swift, Addison, Johnson, Hazlitt, Lamb, De Quincey, Carlyle, Emerson, Ruskin, Stein, Woolf, Orwell, Beckett, Hemingway, and Nabokov. The main objective of the course is to raise your consciousness of English prose—its variety, possibilities, and pitfalls—both as a reader and as a writer.