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Can someone recommend the best books for teaching me how to write? I don't mean sappy motivational stuff, but perhaps an extensive guide to rhetoric, narrative and literary devices. I read that grammar schools of old (like Shakespeare's time) used to have students leave at 15 with a better grasp of language and rhetoric than most modern day Classics/Literature university graduates, and I would like to be able to teach myself the sort of things they would have learned. Pic unrelated. Thanks.
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Bumping because also interested
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>>9388507
CLASSICAL
The Trivium by Sister Miram Joseph
Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language by Sister Miram Joseph
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Edward P. J. Corbett
Classical English Rhetoric by Ward Farnsworth
MODERN
A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H Abrams
Poems, Poets, Poetry by Helen Vendler
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler
Praising it New, The Best of the New Criticism selected by Garrick Davis
The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth
Understanding Poetry and Understanding Fiction by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warden
Included some more modern stuff that you'll find enlightening.
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>>9388747
I would recommend the Oxford Guide to Writing by Thomas S. Kane. Discusses elements of good writing, goes into nuances, and provides famous examples that illustrate these qualities.
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>>9388770
Also the Trivium is a good book but I think it's more focused on grammar and logic.
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WHERE'S MY ARC?
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