The English Essay and Essayists
Author | : Hugh Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hugh Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. H. Lobban |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2018-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780428891282 |
Excerpt from English Essays: With an Introduction In reading an essay you somehow feel as if you were the au thor's special audience, and were personally being made something of, in that the writer is addressing you individually. This is because the essay is personal, conversational, direct, pithy, impulsive, and unpretending. It resembles a letter. Does it not seem as if the writer had in mind some particular friend or intimate enemy to whom his pages are addressed, although dedicated to the public? To this definite or imaginary person the author speaks of fashion, manners, character, books, or politics, avoiding mere scholasticism, or pedantry, or the vitriolic force of the philippic. An essential quality of the essay is style. Whatever license of dulness or unevenness may be permitted to the writer of a long epic or history, the essayist must be alert, clear, concise, and polished. Obscureness is fatal, tediousness is suicidal. The manners of the camp, the acrimony of the forum, the technicality of the treatise, the ponderousness of the pulpit, are alike out of place. It is the courtly and debonair, the rapier thrust and not the bludgeon, the mobility and dash of the light cavalry and not the weight of the leviathan artillery, that one demands in the essay. In so far as one departs from these characteristics one leaves its true field. Of course everyone knows that all the essayists hark back to Montaigne. It is a long cry, and yet they have not improved upon him, nor are they likely so to do. Like Walt Whitman Montaigne celebrates himself, but so charmingly that interest in his works has never waned. The field of the English essay is very rich. Not to know the essayists is to have absolutely no adequate knowledge of English literature. They are of its very warp and woof. From Bacon down to the present day their names are among the brightest in the galaxy of English writers. If it be said that Bacon was too stately and severe, it may be remarked that this stateliness was part of his character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : C. T. Winchester |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2018-01-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780483709676 |
Excerpt from A Book of English Essays The Essay, as a distinct literary form, may be defined as a prose composition of moderate length, dealing with one subject, and in such a way as to give free expression to the personality of the writer. The term has, indeed, been loosely applied to a wide variety of prose works, e such as the philosophical treatise, the historical or bio graphical monograph, and the brief anonymous article of the newspaper. But the essay, in'the' stricter sense in which the word is employed in this volume, is always personal, always in some degree autobiographical. The essayist is, in some special sense, writing Of himself. The essay thus, in this respect, corresponds in prose with the lyric in verse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : John Henry Fowler |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2016-09-09 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781333530181 |
Excerpt from English Essays: Materials and Models for Composition From the Great Essayists Some sort of model is as necessary or as desirable as in the case of Latin and Greek composition. It is said to be the practice of some professors of the art to write and dictate a fair copy but this is a solution of the difficulty from which the modesty of many teachers will naturally shrink. There remains the alternative of using the great essayists themselves as models. It has been held no discredit to Virgil and Horace, but on the contrary a signal mark of honour, that even in their life-time they were used in the Roman schools: and I trust it is no dishonour to some of the 'dearest names in English literature to apply them to this purpose. Though I have done my best to choose essays that in scope and treatment will be serviceable from this point of view, it is obvious that the literary essay cannot furnish a direct model for the school exercise. Some such cautions as I have given on this topic in the Introduction will, I think, generally be sufficient to call the attention of the student to those essential differences which it is important for him to notice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : William J. Dawson |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2017-10-20 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780266521280 |
Excerpt from The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Stanley V. Makower |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2018-01-16 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780483196292 |
Excerpt from A Book of English Essays (1600-1900) Of the word Essay it is necessary to say some thing, because at different times it has borne different meanings. Johnson's definition of it as a loose sally of the mind an irregular undigested piece covered its employment by authors to excuse shortcomings, and to disarm the critic in his examination of a work which boasted of no pretence to literature. Some such idea of admitted or implied failure in a worthy experiment adhered to Montaigne's use of the word in those Essaz's which were published in 1580. But the decay of this sense began in fact with this publication, although the author expressed his apology for being some thing fantastical For that very wandering from point to point which in Montaigne was a habit of mind, was developed by the English essayists of the eighteenth century into a deliberate study. Out of what Montaigne would have been only too pleased to call irregularity and want of finish they invented a literary quality which in Goldsmith rose to a perfection of carelessness in approaching and retreating from a subject. It was in another direction from that taken by Montaigne and his followers that Bacon enlarged the meaning of the word essay in literature. He applied it to his pieces not in the sense of an experiment but in the sense of a test or assay He weighed and examined his subjects one by one. With the grip of his intellect he clung to each separate subject as to a rock while he treated of it, refusing to dip to the invading wave of kindred ideas by which it was surrounded. In the dedica tion of his second edition of pieces to Prince Henry of Wales in 1612 he wrote of them as brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient'. And he went on to point out that Seneca's epistles to Lucilius were, if read aright, nothing but essays. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : William Morton Payne |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2018-03-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780365437864 |
Excerpt from Leading American Essayists The English essay is a literary species not easily defined. The term has been applied even in modern times to productions as far apart as the Essays of Ella and the Essay on Population. Between these extremes come countless writings, ranging from the solemnity of the Essays and Reviews to the light-heartedness, not to say the frivolity, of The New Republic. These contrasting examples from English literature may be matched on the American side of the Atlantic by naming Horace Greeley's Essays on American Farming with Donald Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor, the Essays of Count Rumford with Irving's Sketch Book, and the miscellaneous writings of the elder Henry James with those of the younger. We may, however, omit from the reckoning with out any serious question both the Reverend Mr. Malthus and the contributors to the Essays and Reviews, both the American pioneer of physical science and the American journalist, together with the authors of many other writings that are styled essays rather by accident than of set purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Washington Irving |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2016-06-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781333007065 |
Excerpt from American Essays Another of our typical essayists is George Wil liam Curtis. Toward the end of his life Curtis wrote every month, for Harper's Magazine, a paper called The Editor's Easy Chair. These were true essays, not unlike in character Thackeray's Roundabout Papers. Each month he thought of some subject around which he might weave his ideas and fancies, and the result was a collection full of character and thought. But these were not Curtis's first experiments in this direction. In Prue and I we have a series of papers which, though put in the form of reveries (shall we call them?) of an old bookkeeper, are quite as much essays as if Curtis had written them in his own person. Some of them are more of an exercise of fancy, it is true, but there is thought in them too, perhaps as much as he afterwards put into his lay sermons from The Editor's Easy Chair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : William Hawley Davis |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2018-03-19 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780364981474 |
Excerpt from English Essayists: A Reader's Handbook There is in him that which does not die; that Beauty and Earnestness of soul, that spirit of Humanity, of Love and mild Wisdom, over which the Vicissitudes of mode have no sway. This is that excellence of the inmost nature which alone confers immortality on writings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Hugh Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : |