Great English Essays

    Great English Essays

    From Bacon to Chesterton

    Edited by Bob Blaisdell

    $4.50

    Publication Date: 15th March 2012

    This collection, spanning four centuries of English wit, wisdom, and common sense, contains the thoughts of a number of renowned masters of the essay. From Francis Bacon--the English author who reputedly imported the genre from France, to literary critic, mystery writer, and social commentator G. K. Chesterton, more than twenty writers express their views on such subjects as walking, writing, traveling, sleeping, pets, friends, and childhood.
    Included among the literary offerings are "Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden" by Joseph Addison, "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick" by Jonat... Read More
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    This collection, spanning four centuries of English wit, wisdom, and common sense, contains the thoughts of a number of renowned masters of the essay. From Francis Bacon--the English author who reputedly imported the genre from France, to literary critic, mystery writer, and social commentator G. K. Chesterton, more than twenty writers express their views on such subjects as walking, writing, traveling, sleeping, pets, friends, and childhood.
    Included among the literary offerings are "Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden" by Joseph Addison, "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick" by Jonat... Read More
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    This collection, spanning four centuries of English wit, wisdom, and common sense, contains the thoughts of a number of renowned masters of the essay. From Francis Bacon--the English author who reputedly imported the genre from France, to literary critic, mystery writer, and social commentator G. K. Chesterton, more than twenty writers express their views on such subjects as walking, writing, traveling, sleeping, pets, friends, and childhood.
    Included among the literary offerings are "Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden" by Joseph Addison, "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick" by Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson's "Dick Minim the Critic," as well as compositions by Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, and other noted authors.
    The works are presented chronologically and original publication dates are given where available.

    Dover original selection of essays from standard sources.
    Details
    • Price: $4.50
    • Pages: 224
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections
    • Publication Date: 15th March 2012
    • Trim Size: 5.18 x 8.25 in
    • ISBN: 9780486112367
    • Format: eBook
    • BISACs:
      LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
      LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
    Author Bio
    Bob Blaisdell is professor of English at the City University of New York's Kingsborough Community College and the editor of twenty-two Dover literature and poetry collections.
    Table of Contents
    Francis Bacon
      Of Love
      Of Cunning
      Of Ambition
      Of Gardens
    Thomas Fuller
      The Good Schoolmaster
    Owen Feltham
      On Dreams
    Abraham Cowley
      Of Myself
    Jonathan Swift
      A Meditation on a Broomstick, According to the Style and Manner of the Hon. Robert Boyle's Meditations
      A Modest Proposal
    Joseph Addison
      Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden
      The Tory Fox-Hunter
      Meditations in Westminster Abbey
    Richard Steele
      Jack Lizard
      Recollections of Childhood
    Samuel Johnson
      Dick Minim the Critic
      Spring
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
      Art Connoisseurs
    Oliver Goldsmith
      The Character of an Important Trifler, Beau Tibbs
      The Character of the Trifler Continued: with That of His Wife, His House, and Furniture
      National Prejudice
    James Boswell
      Passionate Love
      Parents and Their Children
    Charles Lamb
      Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist
      A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People
      The Superannuated Man
      Old China
    William Hazlitt
      On Familiar Style
      On Going a Journey
    Leigh Hunt
      A Few Thoughts on Sleep
      Getting Up on Cold Mornings
    William Makepeace Thackeray
      Tunbridge Toys
    Charles Dickens
      Lying Awake
    Anthony Trollope
      A Walk in a Wood
    John Ruskin
      The Clouds Are There
    John Addington Symonds
      Personal Style
    W. H. Hudson
      Her Own Village
      Dandy: A Story of a Dog
    Alice Meynell
      Fellow Travellers with a Bird
      The Unready
    Richard Jefferies
      The July Grass
    Augustine Birrell
      Book-Buying
    Robert Louis Stevenson
      Notes on the Movements of Young Children
    George Bernard Shaw
      On Pleasure Bent
    G. K. Chesterton
      A Defence of Skeletons
      A Defence of Nonsense
      Twelve Men
    Virginia Woolf
      Hours in a Library
    D. H. Lawrence
      Adolf
    This collection, spanning four centuries of English wit, wisdom, and common sense, contains the thoughts of a number of renowned masters of the essay. From Francis Bacon--the English author who reputedly imported the genre from France, to literary critic, mystery writer, and social commentator G. K. Chesterton, more than twenty writers express their views on such subjects as walking, writing, traveling, sleeping, pets, friends, and childhood.
    Included among the literary offerings are "Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden" by Joseph Addison, "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick" by Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson's "Dick Minim the Critic," as well as compositions by Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, and other noted authors.
    The works are presented chronologically and original publication dates are given where available.

    Dover original selection of essays from standard sources.
    • Price: $4.50
    • Pages: 224
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections
    • Publication Date: 15th March 2012
    • Trim Size: 5.18 x 8.25 in
    • ISBN: 9780486112367
    • Format: eBook
    • BISACs:
      LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
      LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
    Bob Blaisdell is professor of English at the City University of New York's Kingsborough Community College and the editor of twenty-two Dover literature and poetry collections.
    Francis Bacon
      Of Love
      Of Cunning
      Of Ambition
      Of Gardens
    Thomas Fuller
      The Good Schoolmaster
    Owen Feltham
      On Dreams
    Abraham Cowley
      Of Myself
    Jonathan Swift
      A Meditation on a Broomstick, According to the Style and Manner of the Hon. Robert Boyle's Meditations
      A Modest Proposal
    Joseph Addison
      Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden
      The Tory Fox-Hunter
      Meditations in Westminster Abbey
    Richard Steele
      Jack Lizard
      Recollections of Childhood
    Samuel Johnson
      Dick Minim the Critic
      Spring
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
      Art Connoisseurs
    Oliver Goldsmith
      The Character of an Important Trifler, Beau Tibbs
      The Character of the Trifler Continued: with That of His Wife, His House, and Furniture
      National Prejudice
    James Boswell
      Passionate Love
      Parents and Their Children
    Charles Lamb
      Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist
      A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People
      The Superannuated Man
      Old China
    William Hazlitt
      On Familiar Style
      On Going a Journey
    Leigh Hunt
      A Few Thoughts on Sleep
      Getting Up on Cold Mornings
    William Makepeace Thackeray
      Tunbridge Toys
    Charles Dickens
      Lying Awake
    Anthony Trollope
      A Walk in a Wood
    John Ruskin
      The Clouds Are There
    John Addington Symonds
      Personal Style
    W. H. Hudson
      Her Own Village
      Dandy: A Story of a Dog
    Alice Meynell
      Fellow Travellers with a Bird
      The Unready
    Richard Jefferies
      The July Grass
    Augustine Birrell
      Book-Buying
    Robert Louis Stevenson
      Notes on the Movements of Young Children
    George Bernard Shaw
      On Pleasure Bent
    G. K. Chesterton
      A Defence of Skeletons
      A Defence of Nonsense
      Twelve Men
    Virginia Woolf
      Hours in a Library
    D. H. Lawrence
      Adolf