Literary Essays
Rookie Dad : Thoughts On First Time Fatherhood
In a series of personal literary essays, David Jacobson reflects humorously and heartbreakingly on the joys and fears of first-time fatherhood from his wife's pregnancy to his son's first birthday.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books
The essays that were later published as Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882) began to appear in the Cornhill Magazine in 1876. The essay was the form in which Stevenson first gave promise of his future distinction and these critical essays were very favourably received.
The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays
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Eliot was an influential critic; his criticism illuminated both the work of his literary predecessors and his own poetic aims--particularly his 1919 essay, Tradition and the Individual Talent , in which he stresses the importance and vitality of th Copyri
Can Poetry Matter?
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Dana Gioia`s controversial title essay, which angered the poetry establishment, was first published in the Atlantic in 1991. In it he claims that literary culture in America needs to be reinvented.
Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues
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A collection of 14 essays written by African American women, ranging in style from Audre Lorde's essay on eroticism to Miriam De-Costa Willis's moving piece on her husband's last years. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only.
Reading Myself and Others
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Philip Roth`s first work of nonfiction (1975) is a collection of essays by Roth about his own books (and, often, his concept of himself--and others` concepts of him--as an American Jewish writer) and that of others, including a long essay on Kafka.