Re: Books on writing?

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Frank Brownlow wrote:
> If you want Strunk & White--I think the title is "The Elements of
> style"--you have to buy a pre-1970 or so copy. That was about when, in
> the manner of text-book publishers, the owners of the copyright brought
> in a run-of-the-mill freshman English teacher to revise the book who,
> like most such people, hadn't the first notion of real writing, and
> wrecked it.
Very interesting. My copy is c. 1979, Macmillan, 3d ed., but the
only names acknowledged to have contributed are Strunk himself
and E. B. White. According the the copyright page, the earlier
eds. were 1935 (itself a "rev. ed.", of what unspecified), 1959,
and 1972. White had no hand in the 1935 ed., which was Strunk,
rev. by Edward A. Tenney.
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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx