Founders Texts

Robert LOWTH (1710-1787)

was professor at Oxford, after what he became bishop of Oxford, then of London.

He is considered the father of rhetorical analysis.

In 1753 he published his Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews he taught in Oxford between 1741 and 1751.

The most famous one is the nineteen one, on the parallelism of the members, which represents the first principle of biblical and Semitic rhetoric.