Although he left no published work of prose--despite the fact that Ben Jonson called him "father" ("'twas he that polished me") and that Sir Walter Ralegh had him review his style while a fellow priso...
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John Hoskyns was perhaps the most renowned English rhetorician of his generation, even though his book on rhetoric was not printed until 1935. Circulating only in manuscript, his "Direccions for Speec...
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John Hoskyns