THE GREAT ENGLISH ESSAYISTS WITH INTRODUCTORY BY AND tuaja inANJOTIIN mnou HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON LIBRARY DAVIS Contents PAGE THE GENESIS OF THE ESSAY . . . . . . . . . . 3 I. THE CLASSIC ESSAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 II. THE LETTER ESSAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 III. THE SHORT-STORY ESSAY . . . . . . . . . . . 115 IV. THE BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL Essay..... 165 V. IMPASSIONED PROSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 |