Episode · How I Write · 2025-02-12
Books mentioned on Meet The Most Under-Rated Writing Professor in America (Ward Farnsworth)
Ward Farnsworth discussed King James Bible OLD TESTAMENT-PCE by KJB Translators 1604-1611, Sonnets by William Shakespeare, The Book of Job by Harold S. Kushner, Book of Jeremiah by Susan Williams Smith, and Tom Jones by Henry Fielding.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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King James Bible OLD TESTAMENT-PCE
Discussed“and the King James Bible is very famous for that For the tremendous Simplicity of the language”
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Sonnets
Sonnets is a renowned collection of poems by William Shakespeare exploring themes of love, beauty, mortality, and human emotion through traditional verse structures.
Discussed“I more or less OBS the King James Bible more or less obsessively that in shakes”
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The Book of Job
Discussed“that is a lifting from The Book of Job uh I think there's also a usage of that phrase in in Jeremiah”
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Book of Jeremiah
Discussed“uh I think there's also a usage of that phrase in in Jeremiah but I think he he probably took it from job”
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Tom Jones
Tom Jones is a classic comedic novel by Henry Fielding that follows the misadventures of a foundling in 18th-century England.
Discussed“it is possible for a man to know something without having been at school as it is to have been at school and to know nothing from this beautiful novel called Tom Jones by Henry Fielding”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“let me just do an Unapologetic plug for your book I never do this but I no I absolutely love your books they're so simple they're so fun to flip through and everyone who's serious about writing should have definitely rhetoric and style just like lying over their house”
“let me just do an Unapologetic plug for your book I never do this but I no I absolutely love your books they're so simple they're so fun to flip through and everyone who's serious about writing should have definitely rhetoric and style just like lying over their house”
“and everyone who's serious about writing should have definitely rhetoric and style Just like lying over their house”
“you know we only focused on three techniques and these books rhetoric and style classical English style classical English rhetoric they're part of a series”
“you know we only focused on three techniques and these books rhetoric and style classical English style classical English rhetoric they're part of a series”