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This is a collection of essays about the English language by English and American men of letters, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; that is, until the rise of formal linguistic studies. The writers represented are concerned with the history, the use, the reform or the changing nature of English.
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Introduction; 1. William Caxton: Prologue to Eneydos; 2. Richard Mulcaster: 'That the English tung hath matter', from The First Part of the Elementarie; 3. William Harrison: 'Of the languages spoken in this Iland', from Holinshed's Chronicles; 4. William Camden: 'The Languages', from Remaines Concerning Britain; 5. Ben Jonson: Excerpt from Timber: or, Discoveries; 6. Thomas Hobbes: 'Of Speech', from Leviathan; 7. John Dryden: 'Defence of the Epilogue'; 8. Sir Thomas Browne: 'Of Languages, and Particularly of the Saxon Tongue'; 9. John Locke: 'Of Words or Language in general' and 'Of the Signification of Words', from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding; 10. Daniel Defoe: 'Of Academies', from An Essay upon Projects; 11. Joseph Addison: Spectator 135; 12. Jonathan Swift: 'A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue'; 13. Lord Chesterfield: Letter to The World; 14. Samuel Johnson: Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language; 15. Noah Webster: 'An Essay on…Spelling', from Dissertations on the English Language; 16. Benjamin Franklin: 'On Modern Innovations in the English Language and in Printing'; 17. William Cobbett: 'Syntax, as Relating to Nouns', from A Grammar of the English Language; 18. William Hazlitt: 'English Grammar'; 19. Ralph Waldo Emerson: 'Language' from Nature; 20. Thomas De Quincey: 'The English Language'; Study questions; Select index of literary and linguistic topics.
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