Great English Essays: From Bacon to Chesterton
Essays spanning 4 centuries reflect the wit, wisdom, and common sense of a number of distinguished English writers. Included are Addison's "Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden," Swift's "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick," Johnson's "Dick Minim the Critic," plus compositions by Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, and others.
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Essays spanning 4 centuries reflect the wit, wisdom, and common sense of a number of distinguished English writers. Included are Addison's "Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden," Swift's "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick," Johnson's "Dick Minim the Critic," plus compositions by Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, and others.
Of Love [Essays, 1612]1Of Cunning [Essays, 1612]3Of Ambition [Essays, 1612]6Of Gardens [Essays, 1612]8The Good Schoolmaster [The Holy and Profane State, 1642] [CEE]13Of Dreams [Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, 1661] [EP]16Of Myself [Discourses by Way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, 1668]18A Meditation Upon a Broomstick, According to the Style and Manner of the Hon. Robert Boyle's Meditations [1704] [CEE]23A Modest Proposal [1729] [The Works of Jonathan Swift, 1851]25Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden [The Spectator, No. 383, May 20, 1712]32The Tory Fox-Hunter [The Freeholder, No. 22, March 5, 1716] [SEE]35Meditations in Westminster Abbey [The Spectator, No. 26, March 30, 1711]39Jack Lizard [The Guardian, No. 24, April 8, 1713] [CEE]42Recollections of Childhood [The Tatler, No. 181, June 6, 1710]46Dick Minim the Critic [Parts 1-2] [The Idler, Nos. 60-61, June 9 and June 16, 1759] [EP]49Spring [The Rambler, No. 5, April 3, 1750]55Art Connoisseurs [The Idler, No. 76, 1759] [EPMR]59The Character of an Important Trifler, Beau Tibbs [The Public Ledger, July 2, 1760]62The Character of the Trifler Continued: with That of His Wife, His House, and Furniture [The Public Ledger, August 1, 1760]65National Prejudice [The Citizen of the World, 1762] [EPMR]68Passionate Love [The Hypochondriack, No. 11, London Magazine, August 1778]71Parents and Their Children [The Hypochondriack, No. 45, London Magazine, June 1781]76Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist [London Magazine, 1821; Essays of Elia, 1823] [SEE]80A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People [The Reflector, ca. 1811-1812; Essays of Elia, 1823] [SEE]86The Superannuated Man [The Last Essays of Elia, 1833]92Old China [London Magazine, 1823; The Last Essays of Elia, 1833] [CEE]98On Familiar Style [Table-Talk, or Original Essays, 1822]103On Going a Journey [January 1822; Table-Talk, or Original Essays, 1822]109A Few Thoughts on Sleep [The Indicator, 1834]118Getting Up on Cold Mornings [The Indicator, 1834]123Tunbridge Toys [The Roundabout Papers, 1863]126Lying Awake [Household Words, October 30, 1852]131A Walk in a Wood [Good Words, September 1879]137The Clouds Are There [Modern Painters, IV, 1856-1860]147Personal Style [Essays Speculative and Suggestive, 1890]150Her Own Village [A Traveller in Little Things, 1921]155Dandy: A Story of a Dog [A Traveller in Little Things, 1921]159Fellow Travellers with a Bird [Essays, 1916]163The Unready [Essays, 1916]168The July Grass [Field and Hedgerow, 1888]171Book-Buying [Obiter Dicta, 1894]174Notes on the Movements of Young Children [1874] [Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson]177On Pleasure Bent [November 20, 1897] [Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology by Bernard Shaw]181A Defence of Skeletons [The Defendant, 1901]186A Defence of Nonsense [The Defendant, 1901]189Twelve Men [Tremendous Trifles, 1909]193Hours in a Library [TLS, November 30, 1916]196Adolf [The Dial, September 1920]202
