Books by F. L. Lucas

F. L. Lucas takes us through his ten points of effective prose style and provides a tour of some of the best (and worst) that has been written in a number of languages and literatures.

Frank Laurence Lucas (1894-1967) was a renowned English poet, often remembered for his polemical attacks on modernist figures such as T. S. Eliot. Marionettes is a collection of Lucas' verse, notable for its clear and economical style that Lucas regarded as being absent in much of the avant-garde literature.

Originally published in 1936, this book provides a critical examination of the potential for excess in Romantic thought, a form of excess which denies the reality principle in favour of the unbridled exploration of the imagination. The text is consummately researched and written with a great deal of expertise.