Enrique Said:

what writing style would have been used in the shakespearean play "Macbeth" if someone wrote a letter

We Answered:

the style of writing would be Elizabethan. They would have written on parchment and they would have fancy script/calligraphy lettering.

Scott Said:

Writing a Romantic 18th Century Style Letter to a Prostitute?

We Answered:

Three suggestions from the big poets:
(1) John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester,
(2) Donne's Elegy XX
(3) Roethke

JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER. Have you already plundered the writings of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, the infamous Restoration libertine and erotic poet?

Granted, wrong century, but if all you're looking for is a spot of the Jolly Old, you could steal, borrow, adapt from him.

A sample from his "Imperfect Enjoyment":

Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms,
I filled with love, and she all over charms
Both equally inspired with eager fire,
Melting through kindness, flaming in desire.
With arms,legs,lips close clinging to embrace,
She clips me to her breast, and sucks me to her face.
Her nimble tongue, Love's lesser lightening, played
Within my mouth, and to my thoughts conveyed
Swift orders that I should prepare to throw
The all-dissolving thunderbolt below.

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Good stuff. Thunderbolt. Anyway, he's all over the Internet -- and you might want to browse the Pornokrates (think "the Socrates of Porn") ...

http://www.pornokrates.com/rochester.htm…
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(2) DONNE. And, of course, never neglect Donne's amazing Elegy XX: To His Mistress Going to Bed, which opens with the incredible reverese carpe diem moment -- when the poet warns the mistress that if she doesn't come to bed soon, he will lose his erection:

COME, madam, come, all rest my powers defy ;
Until I labour, I in labour lie.
The foe ofttimes, having the foe in sight,
Is tired with standing, though he never fight.

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The poem then uses a very sexy invocation of the New World to warn the Lady not to step out on him (a very Ike Turner moment, may he rest in peace):

O, my America, my Newfoundland,
My kingdom, safest when with one man mann'd,
My mine of precious stones, my empery ;
How am I blest in thus discovering thee !

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And just before that, it's got the lines that Philip Roth has described as the most erotic list of adverbs in the English language:

Licence my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.

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(3) ROETHKE. Finally, the great love poems of Theodore Roethke, including "Four for Sir John Davies," "I Knew a Woman" and the lesser known

from "I Knew a Woman"
How well her wishes went! She stroked my chin,
She taught me Turn, and Counter-turn, and stand;
She taught me Touch, that undulant white skin:
I nibbled meekly from her proffered hand;
She was the sickle; I, poor I, the rake,
Coming behind her for her pretty sake
(But what prodigious mowing did we make.)

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Or from his unpublished work, he's got an incredible short poem that includes the line "my back -- if not my heart -- will break / If we do this again" and ends with the command: "O Angel, let me go!"

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BTW, good luck with the whore. She's a lucky, lucky gal to have a fella like you.

Lynn Said:

What are the elements, parts, and styles of letter writing?

We Answered:

Letter Writing Rules.

I can help with the format but not the content.

http://www.letterwritingguide.com/

http://www.wendy.com/letterwriting/

http://englishplus.com/grammar/letrcont.…

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resour…