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Back in print after 17 years, this is a concise history of rhetoric as it relates to structure, genre, and style, with special reference to English literature a

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Offers a radical re-appraisal of rhetoric's relation to literature, with fresh insights into rhetorical sources and their reception in Roman poetry.

Alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 60 leading rhetoricians of antiquity detail their lives and writings and cite works for further reading.