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The Triumph of Letters

1

The Problem of Style

3

The Instrument and the Audience, with a Digression on the Actor

4

The Sense-Elements

8

The Functions of Sense

10

Picture

11

Melody

14

Meaning, Exampled in Negation

17

The Weapons of Thought

21

The Analogy from Architecture

23

The Analogy Rectified. The Law of Change

24

The Good Slang

27

The Bad Slang

29

Archaism

32

Romantic and Classic

36

The Palsy of Definition

39

Distinction

43

Assimilation

45

Synonyms

46

Variety of Expression

49

Variety Justified

50

Metaphor and Abstraction: Poetry and Science

55

The Doctrine of the Mot Propre

61

The Instrument

65

The Audience

65

The Relation of the Author to his Audience

71

The Poet and his Audience

71

Public Caterers

77

The Cautelous Man

78

Sentimentalism and Jocularity

81

The Tripe-Seller

83

The Wag

85

Social and Rhetorical Corruptions

87

Sincerity

88

Insincerity

93

Austerity

94

The Figurative Style

98

Decoration

100

Allusiveness

102

Simplicity and Strength

104

The Paradox of Letters

107

Drama

108

Implicit Drama

111

Words Again

115

Quotation

116

Appropriation

119

The World of Words

123

The Teaching of Style

124

The Conclusion

127