David H. Burton (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: "Theodore Roosevelt: Learned Style," in The Learned Presidency, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988, pp. 39-88.
[In the following essay, Burton examines the influences that formed Roosevelt's prose style.]
On 7 June 1910, in the Sheldonian Theatre of the University of Oxford, ex-President Theodore Roosevelt delivered the Romanes Lecture. He called it "The World Movement—Biological Analogies in History." The invitation by Lord Curzon, the chancellor of the university, to give the address...
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©1997 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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