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... essay in English has been revolving during the last 350 years . We have the ' expository ' essay , we have the ' personal ' essay : two streams flowing never far apart , nor ever quite close together , one broad and slow and rather ...
... essay in English has been revolving during the last 350 years . We have the ' expository ' essay , we have the ' personal ' essay : two streams flowing never far apart , nor ever quite close together , one broad and slow and rather ...
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... essay ' is no more easy than it is to define a lyric ' . Bacon seemed to imply that an essay is but a string of dispersed meditations . Johnson described the essay as a loose sally of the mind , an irregular , undigested piece , —not a ...
... essay ' is no more easy than it is to define a lyric ' . Bacon seemed to imply that an essay is but a string of dispersed meditations . Johnson described the essay as a loose sally of the mind , an irregular , undigested piece , —not a ...
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... essay is the reverie , the frame of mind in which a man says , in the words of the old song , ' say I to myself , says I ' . Virginia Woolf also conveys the same idea when she describes the essay as a curtain , something friendly and ...
... essay is the reverie , the frame of mind in which a man says , in the words of the old song , ' say I to myself , says I ' . Virginia Woolf also conveys the same idea when she describes the essay as a curtain , something friendly and ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF LITERATURE AND THe | 3 |
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE | 21 |
BACKGROUNDS CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN | 42 |
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