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Peer reviewedMacLennan, Hugh – English Quarterly, 1981
Traces the history of English prose from Francis Bacon to the present, commenting on the quality of various authors' writing and of fiction today. (HTH)
Descriptors: Authors, English Literature, Fiction, Literary Criticism
Ross, William T. – Freshman English News, 1978
Traces the denigration of discursive prose back through the "New Criticism" to Romanticism and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who saw poetry as special and separate from other rhetoric. Notes that discursive prose can be just as creative and interesting as poetry. Urges composition teachers to shift their point of view accordingly. (RL)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Creativity, English Instruction, Higher Education
