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	EUPHUISM - LoveToKnow Article on EUPHUISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This second excerpt, moreover, suggests another of the main characteristics of Euphuism, the incessant use, for purposes of ornament, of similes taken from fabulous records of zoology, or relating to mythical birds, fishes or minerals.
		Scott betrays his own error when he says that the extravagance of Euphuism predominates in the romances of Calprende and Scuderi, in which it is true that a tone of preposterous gallantry finds a language of its own, but that is not the language of Euphues.
		That was certainly not the intention of the author, and in fact the publication of the Arcadia, eleven years after that of Euphues, marks the beginning of the downfall of the popularity of the latter.
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	Euphuism -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Euphuism is a mannered style of English (Ordinary writing as distinguished from verse) prose, taking its name from works by (English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606)) John Lyly.
		Euphuism is a style that focuses on a wide range of literary devices such as antitheses, (Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse) alliterations, repetitions, (A statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered) rhetorical questions and others.
		Euphuism was, however, taken up by the Elizabethan novelists (additional info and facts about Robert Greene) Robert Greene and (additional info and facts about Thomas Lodge) Thomas Lodge.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/eu/euphuism.htm (477 words)

	§5. Euphuism. XVI. Elizabethan Prose Fiction. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But this elaborated style, this “curtizan-like painted affectation” of Euphuism, did not originate with Lyly himself; he only “hatched the egges that his elder friendes laide.” Its immediate origin lay in a certain stylistic tendency then fashionable in England.
		Nor are the results of Euphuism on English prose style by any means a negligible quantity, though its “cunning courtship of faire words,” its tedious redundancies and mass of ornaments, led to its abandonment, generally speaking, about 1590.
		Sidney, by that time, had lamented the fact that his contemporaries enamelled “with py’d flowers their thoughts of gold,” and Warner perceived that in running “on the letter we often runne from the matter.” But some good came of it all.
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	AllRefer.com - euphuism (English Literature, 1500 To 1799) - Encyclopedia
		It was characterized by extensive use of simile and illustration, balanced construction, alliteration, and antithesis.
		Euphuism played an important role in English literary history by demonstrating the capabilities of English prose.
		The term has come to mean an artificial, precious, high-flown style of writing.
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	EUPHUISM - Encyclopedia Britannica - EUPHUISM - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		EUPHUISM, the peculiar mode of speaking and writing brought into fashion in England towards the end of the reign of Elizabeth by the vogue of the fashionable romance of Euphues, published in 1578 by John Lyly.
		That lady was considered most proficient in euphuism who could keep uplongest these chains of similes taken out of fabulous natural history.
		It will be noticed that these characteristics differ in many respects from the specimens of euphuism which are most familiar to a modern reader, namely the extravagant speech placed in the mouth of Sir Piercie Shafton in Sir Walter Scott's romance of The Monastery.
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	EUPHUISM - Online Information article about EUPHUISM
		hero of his romance, and it is with him that the vogue of Euphuism began.
		Court, which could not parley Euphuism, was as little regarded, as she which, now there, speaks not See also:
		FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /EUD_FAT/EUPHUISM.html (2478 words)

	DITL - article Euphuism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Recent scholarship has explored pre-lylyan Euphuism in the aristocratic idiosyncratic style, and tended to inscribe Lyly's novels in the general "movement of defence and illustration of the English tongue" expressed in the theoritical works of such rhetoricians as Thomas Wilson (The Art of Rhetoric, 1553) and Henry Peacham (The Garden of Eloquence, 1577).
		It is expectedly in stylistic terms that most scholars have defined "Euphuism", the structural devices (e.g.
		The editor of which could write in 1632: "All our ladies were then his Schollers; And that Beautie in Court, which could not parley Euphuisme, was as little regarded, as shee which now there, speakes not French".
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	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: euphuism @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: euphuism @ HighBeam Research
		EUPHUISM [euphuism], in English literature, a highly elaborate and artificial style that derived from the Euphues (1578) of John Lyly and that flourished in England in the 1580s.
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