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David Gershom Myers

The Elephants Teach

Creative Writing Since 1880

With a new Afterword
256 pages,  6 x 9  © 1996, 2006

Paper $17.00

ISBN: 9780226554549   Published May 2006

About the Author
Foreword by Jacques Barzun
Preface
Introduction
1. When Philology Was in Flower
2. The Founding of English Composition
3. The Problem of Writing in a Practical Age
4. An Index of Adagios
5. The Sudden Adoption of Creative Work
6. Criticism Takes Command
7. The Elephant Machine
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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