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John Emory Jordan (1919–1999)

Author of Using Rhetoric

5+ Works 27 Members

About the Author

Includes the name: John E. Jordan

Works by John Emory Jordan

Using Rhetoric (1965) 12 copies

Questions of rhetoric, (1971) 7 copies

Why the Lyrical Ballads?: The Background, Writing, and Character of Wordsworth's 1798 Lyrical Ballads (1976) 4 copies

Thomas De Quincey: Literary Critic (1973) 3 copies

De Quincey to Wordsworth A Biography of a Relationship with the Letters of Thomas De Quincy to the Wordsworth Family (1963) 1 copy

Associated Works

Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821) — Introduction, some editions — 2,111 copies, 39 reviews

Defence of Poetry and the Four Ages of Poetry (1965) — Editor, some editions — 11 copies, 1 review

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Jordan, John Emory
Birthdate: 1919-04-18
Date of death: 1999-04-12
Gender: male
Education: Johns Hopkins University (PhD)
University of Richmond
Occupations: professor emeritus
Organizations: University of California, Berkeley
United States Navy
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Associated Place (for map): Virginia, USA

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Works: 5
Also by: 2
Members: 27
Popularity: #483,026
Rating: ½ 3.5

ISBNs: 6

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