levels: syntactic, semantic, logical, rhythmic. As teachers of composition, we properly pay considerable attention to the first three of these; too little, as it seems to me, to the last. Yet good prose, we all know, reads well. Whether it is the work of a gifted professional stylist or of someone for whom writing is an incidental activity, prose which we admire satisfies the ear as well as the mind

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