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Title: John Stuart Mill and Rhetoric: The Perspicuous Account of Truthful Obscurity.
Author : Nineteenth-Century Prose
Release Date : January 22, 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 223 KB

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I approach Mill's essays on poetry as a timely application of romantic (as opposed to pragmatic) rhetorical theory to some new problems posed by the growing marketplace of letters. Mill's arguments about the nonemphatic nature of poetry in "What is Poetry?" and "The Two Kinds of Poetry," and his development of a romantic method of critical reading in his essay on Tennyson provide an early-Victorian solution to the problem of critical truth and sincerity by separating the discourses of poetry and philosophy from the perceived corrupting effects of an increasingly rhetorical and "affected" mode of periodical prose writing. **********