by Stanley Fish
Koch, Kenneth, 17, 21
Lanham, Richard, 51
Lawrence, D. H., 107–9
Leonard, Elmore, 101–2, 106
Mather, Increase, 114–15
Melville, Herman, 51, 52, 63, 65
Michaels, Leonard, 103–6
Milton, John, 56–59, 60, 61, 65, 124, 129, 137–41
Montaigne, Michel de, 61–63
Olshin, Toby A., 66
Orwell, George, 121
Pater, Walter, 7, 59, 60, 61, 63
Poe, Edgar Allan, 44, 126–27, 142
Pound, Ezra, 73
Poussin, Nicolas, 153
Powell, Anthony, 153–55
Roth, Philip, 102–3, 106
Salinger, J. D., 63, 67–68, 76
Scalia, Antonin, 6, 7
Server, Lee, 93–95
Shakespeare, William, 52
Shelley, Mary, 123
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 60
Sidney, Philip, 136
Sprat, Thomas, 40, 41
Sterne, Laurence, 63–67, 76
Stein, Gertrude, 69–73, 76, 79, 84, 85, 154, 159–60
Stevens, Wallace, 26
Strunk, William, Jr., 13–14, 37
Swift, Jonathan, 41, 42, 95–97
Tarkington, Booth, 113–14
Taylor, Jeremy, 115–18
Tufte, Virginia, 2
Updike, John, 9–11
White, E. B., 13–14, 37
Wilde, Oscar, 92–93, 95
Williams, Joseph, 49–50
Williams, William Carlos, 75
Woolf, Virginia, 77–85
Wordsworth, William, 32–33, 127
About the Author
Stanley Fish is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and a professor of law at Florida International University. He has previously taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He has received many honors and awards, including being named the Chicagoan of the Year for Culture. He is the author of twelve books and is now a weekly online columnist for the New York Times. He resides in Andes, NY; New York City; and Delray Beach, Florida; with his wife, Jane Tompkins.
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Copyright
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following:
“Permanently” from The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch by Kenneth Koch. Copyright © 2005 by The Kenneth Koch Literary Estate. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
“TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS.” Words by JOHNNY MERCER, music by RICHARD A. WHITING © 1937 (Renewed) WB MUSIC CORP. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
HOW TO WRITE A SENTENCE. Copyright © 2011 by Stanley Fish. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fish, Stanley Eugene.
How to write a sentence : and how to read one / by Stanley Fish. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-184054-8
1. English language—Sentences. 2. English language—Grammar—Problems, exercises, etc. 3. English language—Rhetoric. I. Title.
PE1441.F57 2011
808'.042—dc22
2010033166
EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062006851
11 12 13 14 15 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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