Selected English essays from Sir Philip Sidney through Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Contents
44 sections- The Harvard Classics
- Introductory Note
- The Defense of Poesy
- Introductory Note
- On Shakespeare
- On Bacon
- Introductory Note
- Of Agriculture
- Introductory Note
- The Vision of Mirza [1]
- Westminster Abbey [1]
- Introductory Note
- The Spectator Club [1]
- Introductory Note
- Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation
- A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
- A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
- On the Death of Esther Johnson [Stella]
- Introductory Note
- The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters
- The Education of Women
- Introductory Note
- Life of Addison
- Introductory Note
- Of the Standard of Taste
- Introductory Note
- Fallacies of Anti-Reformers [1]
- Introductory Note
- On Poesy or Art [1]
- Introductory Note
- Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen [1]
- Introductory Note
- Deaths of Little Children
- On the Realities of Imagination
- Introductory Note
- On the Tragedies of Shakspere
- Introductory Note
- Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
- Introductory Note
- A Defence of Poetry
- Introductory Note
- Machiavelli [1]