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The phrase "master of English" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is highly proficient in English. For example: "John is a true master of English; I'm always impressed with his command of the language."
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No one, of course, surpasses George Stubbs (1724-1806) -- another Mellon favorite -- as the grand master of English horse painting.
PG Wodehouse is widely recognised as a master of English prose at its purest and most brilliant.
More importantly, it secured for Nabokov, over time, a reputation as a master of English prose second only to Joyce.
Here is a good example from "Money," by Martin Amis, a master of English complaint who has deliberately sought to Americanize his English prose.
I cite as authority the title of a 1934 novel by that great master of English prose, PG Wodehouse: Right Ho, Jeeves.
He was a master of English prose who addressed the social, environmental and economic ills of his day, as well as the story of his own tormented life.
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Russia gave birth to that master of English-language prose named Vladimir Nabokov.
AS ONE of the masters of English prose, George Orwell (1903-50) is a puzzling case.
One of the masters of English writing, Joseph Conrad, never lost his thick Polish accent.
He used and adapted the tone of the great masters of English eloquence: Bacon, Sir Thomas Browne, Hazlitt, Emerson and Henry James.
Early on, he announces that "the three greatest masters of English prose" are the 17th-century writers Thomas Hobbes, Jeremy Taylor and Thomas Browne; other touchstones are Emerson's essays and the rococo style of Henry James.
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