Euphues
Americannoun
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Here, he discusses her prose style in relation to Euphuism, a form of writing that takes its name from John Lyly’s elaborately mannered 1578 didactic romance Euphues: The Anatomy of Wyt.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2013
Among English writers who have made the most abundant use of antithesis are Pope, Young, Johnson, and Gibbon; and especially Lyly in his Euphues.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
In noticing Euphues an account has already been given of Lyly's life, or rather of the very scanty particulars which are known of it.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
This I will proudly boast ... that the vaine which I have ... is of my own begetting and cals no man father in England but myselfe, neither Euphues, nor Tarlton, nor Greene.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand
Lilly's most ambitious work was his "Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit, very pleasant for all Gentlemen to read," "probably printed as early as 1579."
From The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant by Francis Asbury Smith
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