An exceptional gathering of British and American observations on English as the sensitive register of our ideas, feelings, and manners at the beginning of the 1980s. Published in association with the English-Speaking Union, San Francisco Branch.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The State of the Language

Publisher

University of California Press

Publication Date

1979

Language

English

ISBN 10

0520037634

ISBN 13

9780520037632

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Good

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Considers a wide range of topics related to contemporary language

About the Author

Christopher Ricks is a critic and scholar of Milton, Keats, Tennyson, and T. S. Eliot, and teaches at Boston University. Leonard Michaels is a novelist and short story writer, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

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