The War Against Grammar

Whether championing the grammatical analysis of phrases and clauses or arguing for the vital importance of sentence diagramming, Mulroy offers a lucid, learned, passionate account of the history, importance, and value of grammar.

A Stanford Ph.D., Professor DAVID MULROY has taught Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1973. He has published both scholarly and general-interest essays and three books of translations of ancient Greek and Roman poetry. His latest work is a translation of the poems of Catullus.

Foreword by Charles Schuster	vii
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
One America the Grammarless	1	(27)
Two The First Liberal Art	28	(15)
Three We've Passed This Way Before	43	(17)
Four The War Against Grammar	60	(44)
Five Grammar at the Dawn of the Third Millenium	104	(16)
Works Cited	120	(5)
Index	125

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The War Against Grammar

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