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John. ?1554--1606, English dramatist and novelist, noted for his two romances, Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580), written in an elaborate style

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No references found	Though Huxley doubts that Ros ever encountered the work of the Elizabethan Euphuists, he concludes that Ros "arrived independently at precisely the same state of development as Lyly and his disciples" (137); in any society, Huxley asserts, early attempts at literary language "are always productive of the most elaborate artificiality" (138), and it takes centuries before writers recognize "that art [is] possible without artifice" (138). Amanda McKittrick Ros and the Inklings by Gorman, Anita G.; Mateer, Leslie Robertson / Mythlore And what fun it is to stump a friend with a HIPE like LYLY, then tell them they have to add only one more letter. A wordy digression: the game of HIPE by Winkler, Peter / Word Ways Subsequent chapters examine complex scenes of instruction in the work of John Lyly, Philip Sidney, and Edmund Spenser, addressing the uneasy relationship between the "repertory of representational conventions" (18) inculcated in a Tudor schoolboy and the agendas of the didactic romancer. Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance by Kinney, Clare R. / Renaissance Quarterly	lyddite Lydford law Lydgate Lydgate, John Lydgate, Tertius Lydia Lydia Koidula Lydia, Mount Lydian stone lydite lye Lyell Lyell, Charles Lyell, Sir Charles Lygaeidae Lygaeoidea Lygia Lyginopteridaceae Lyginopteridales Lyginopteridatae Lyginopteridopsida Lygosoma lying panel lylafklc LYLAS Lyly Lyly, John Lyman band Lyman continuum Lyman County Lyman ghost Lyman Lake State Park Lyman limit Lyman Run State Park Lyman series Lyman, Theodore Lyman-alpha radiation Lymantriidae Lyme borreliosis Lyme disease Lyme Regis Lymexylidae Lymexylonidae Lymexylonoidea Lymington Lymington and Pennington Lymnaeidae Lymph lymph gland lymph heart Lymph Hearts	LYLAGF LYLALR LYLAM LYLAR LYLARB LYLARS LYLAS LYLAS LYLAS4E LYLASAAF LYLASBAHOALM LYLASIC Lylat Wars Lylburn Downing Middle School LYLC Lyle Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies Lyle Monroe Lyle's syndrome Lyle's syndrome LYLF Lylo Lylo Lylo LYLP LYLS LYLT Lyly Lyly, John Lyly, John Lym Lym Lymail Lyman Abbott Lyman alpha Lyman band Lyman Boat Owners Association Lyman Boat Society of North America Lyman break galaxy Lyman continuum Lyman County Lyman County, SD Lyman County, South Dakota Lyman Davidson Dooley, Inc. Lyman Duff Lyman Frank Baum Lyman Frank Brown Lyman ghost Lyman Hall High School Lyman High School Lyman J. Gage Lyman Lake State Park Lyman limit Lyman line

Though Huxley doubts that Ros ever encountered the work of the Elizabethan Euphuists, he concludes that Ros "arrived independently at precisely the same state of development as Lyly and his disciples" (137); in any society, Huxley asserts, early attempts at literary language "are always productive of the most elaborate artificiality" (138), and it takes centuries before writers recognize "that art [is] possible without artifice" (138).

Amanda McKittrick Ros and the Inklings by Gorman, Anita G.; Mateer, Leslie Robertson / Mythlore

And what fun it is to stump a friend with a HIPE like LYLY, then tell them they have to add only one more letter.

A wordy digression: the game of HIPE by Winkler, Peter / Word Ways

Subsequent chapters examine complex scenes of instruction in the work of John Lyly, Philip Sidney, and Edmund Spenser, addressing the uneasy relationship between the "repertory of representational conventions" (18) inculcated in a Tudor schoolboy and the agendas of the didactic romancer.

Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance by Kinney, Clare R. / Renaissance Quarterly

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