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The New Oxford Book of English Prose.(Review)
From: New Criterion
Date: 19990401
Author:Epstein, Joseph
In Arthur Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Prose (1925), there is a one-paragraph selection by Arthur Clutton-Brock arguing that the cardinal virtue of poetry is love and that of prose justice. Poetry, I take Clutton-Brock at least in part to be saying, is for affirmation and asseveration, for emotion heightened, heated, even hyperbolic; prose is for calm explanation and cool elucidation, for, above all, the measured perfection of expression that goes under the name of precision.
For the editor of an anthology of English prose, the more pertinent point is that the beauty ...
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