Francis-Noël Thomas & Mark Turner
Authors of Clear and Simple as the Truth, who treat classic prose style as a discipline of selection.
Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner are the authors of Clear and Simple as the Truth (1994), a study of what they call classic style — the prose of the clear window, in which the writer's labour is invisible and the reader looks straight through the sentence at the thing.
What the Wiki Takes From Them
Their thesis is that a style is not decoration applied to thought but the expression of a stand — a set of assumptions about truth and the reader. The wiki takes classic style as Selection applied to the sentence: its plainness is achieved, the residue of everything refused, and so it belongs to the same family of disciplines as the edited wardrobe and the proportioned room. It is Restraint in prose.