[giobruno]

I’ve read most of John Gardner’s essays.

[Plymouth Sentinel]

Hi Giobruno,

Sorry for the late reply.

Funny... I was in Washington a week and a half ago, and ran into her (I am reasonably sure) at a CVS in Old Town.

I did a research degree in Renaissance poetry, and have awfully high standards. I’m not keen on much that’s modern. Almost everything I read lacks fundamental discipline. Forget cogency or cohesion. People just sling words around, and the permissive or unknowing readership license it, partronize it, applaud it.

Gardner’s book is a perfect one. I am certain you would love it. I don’t know Gardner’s essays, though I am confident that his book has as its foundations all of the writing he did.

Raleigh’s Style can be found on the internet. It begins “Style, the Latin name for an iron pen, has come to designate the art that handles, with ever fresh vitality and wary alacrity, the fluid elements of speech.”

Good reading, and thanks again for the notes earlier.

BPE