Does such a master of language exist?
He is also a master of language, a writer of extraordinary economy and beauty.
Dobyns is a master of language and seems to know horse racing inside and out.
Mr. McCraney is such a master of language and dramatic construction that he eases into Marcus's soliloquy without sacrificing the vernacular.
Eliot's status as a "master of language" flowed from this scepticism, from his almost hallucinatory sense of what language could and could not do, of what comes before and after it.
He had the advantage of having studied in the nineteen-forties with Artur Schnabel, who was perhaps the sagest pianist of the century — a poet of the instrument, a scholar of the repertory, a master of language.
Castelo Branco was a master of language and of dramatic, or melodramatic, plot, while Dinis depicted country life, as in As pupilas do Senhor Reitor (1867; "The Pupils of the Dean").
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas, the greatest satirist of his time and a master of language, was, in Sueños (1627; "Dreams"), an outstanding exponent of conceptismo; similar traits appear in his picaresque satire La vida del buscón llamado don Pablos (1626; "The Life of the Trickster Called Don Pablos"; Eng. trans. The Scavenger and The Swindler).
He wrote for this magazine for almost fifty years, mostly about jazz, and what he wrote was so good that Philip Larkin, not an easy man to please about either jazz or poetry, called him a "master of language," while, years later, the young Nicholson Baker still referred to him, in a wondering aside, as a "tireless prodigy".
But "Words Alone" is not simply a successful attempt at a fresh survey of the most minutely scrutinised poet in English of the 20th century, for it aims to restore to readers the sense that they should—as readers did in the last century—"submit" to Eliot as a master of language.Mr Donoghue's testimony to his own submission partly takes the form of spiritual-intellectual autobiography.
In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge presupposes this schema when he asks the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, "Are these the shadows of the things that Will be or the shadows of things that May be, only?" Of this example, Hartshorne said, "There is a master of language [i.e. Dickens].
