Reviews for Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately: With Updated Bibliographies

The average rating for Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately: With Updated Bibliographies based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-09-08 00:00:00 Julia Wills This book is an edited volume that includes the most important parts of Blair, Campbell, and Whately. In the preface, Golden and Corbett mention that their purpose is to make these texts available during a time when actual volumes were becoming difficult to find, except in special collections. Now digital archives pretty much make this book unuseful, unless you are obsessed with physical books. All these works have several free editions that are searchable digitally. That said, Golden and Corbett's introduction is definitely worth the read. They do a nice job giving a succinct history of rhetoric that will inform the reading of these works, while giving you a reasonably good foundation in the history of rhetoric (if you don't have one).

Review # 2 was written on 2008-09-01 00:00:00 Marcus Cline Awesome book. Highly technical. It deals with the transformation of Proto-Indo-European into Italic into Latin through phonetic rules, phonological changes, and morphological changes. This is not a casual read, but is endlessly fascinating for people who want a more in-depth look at the PIE roots of Latin.