Essays category: 9344 books
by William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume IV: Early Essays is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars George Bornstein and George Mills Harper. These volumes include virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts with extensive...
Man in the Moon
Essays on Fathers and Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
"Science claims it will one day be able to eliminate fathers from the equation by mating bone marrow with ovum. When that day comes, I imagine this book, along with a handful of other works (King Lear, Fun Home) will become even more necessary. Herein find the blueprints for the mystery, the...
Complete Essays, Literary Criticism, Cryptography, Autography, Translations & Letters
The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of Po's complete nonfiction works. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism...
Essay Writing
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
**Lecturers, request your electronic inspection copy here
Essay Writing** is a student guide with a mission: to enable students to write better essays and get the grades they deserve by demystifying the essay-writing process.
MunLing Shields places essay writing within the larger university...
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works
The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This meticulously edited collection contains complete nonfiction works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's writing reflected his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle". He disliked didacticism and allegory, though he believed that meaning...
by S. Dorman
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
The Essays are comprised in three sections. The first is "neophyte papers." These four essays were written in the mid 1980s when I began thinking about CS Lewis on paper in my limited way. The second section, "Familiarizing Papers," contains two essays written for the course in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
“Writing an essay is like catching a wave,” posits guest editor Ariel Levy. “To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water.” This year’s writers are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide range of pieces awash in a diversity of moods, voices, and stances. Leaving...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Follow the thoughts of essayist, poet and American Transcendentalism founder Ralph Waldo Emerson as he discovered his own belief system in the anthology "Self-Reliance and Other Essays." In "Self-Reliance," Emerson explained that standing on one's own two feet against society was essential to forming...
by Donald Hall
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
**"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."—New York Times
“Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought his prose to a keen autumnal edge.” — Wall Street Journal**
His entire life, Donald Hall dedicated himself to the...
by Gary Soto
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
Powerful personal narratives by the renowned author of Living Up the Street.
These small essays are not unlike Dutch paintings of the sixteenth century. They are clear and precisely rendered, and are either thematically domestic scenes or pedestrian in their observations of the ordinary. There...
by Elizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades.
Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form,...
Philip Sparrow Tells All
Lost Essays by Samuel Steward, Writer, Professor, Tattoo Artist
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Samuel Steward (1909–93) was an English professor, a tattoo artist for the Hells Angels, a sexual adventurer who shared the considerable scope of his experiences with Alfred Kinsey, and a prolific writer whose publications ranged from scholarly articles to gay erotica (the latter appearing under...
The Ideal of Culture
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down.
Joseph...
Wind Sprints
Shorter Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody’s list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down.
Joseph...