Art of the Personal Essay An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

Name: Art of the Personal Essay An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
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ISBN: 9780385423397

ISBN-10: 038542339X

ISBN-13: 9780385423397

Edition: 1995

Authors: Phillip Lopate

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For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking a walk -- to offer insight into the human condition and the great social and political issues of the day. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this fertile genre. By presenting more than seventy-five…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 832
Size: 6.04" wide x 9.16" long x 1.63" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Phillip Lopate is a professor at Columbia University, where he directs the graduate nonfiction program.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Seneca


On Noise


Asthma


Scipio's Villa


Slaves


Plutarch


Consolation to His Wife


Sei Shonagon


Hateful Things


Kenko


Essays in Idleness [Selections]


Ou-Yang Hsiu


Pleasure Boat Studio


Michel De Montaigne


Of Books


Of a Monstrous Child


On Some Verses of Virgil


Abraham Cowley


Of Greatness


Addison and Steele


Nicolini and the Lions (Joseph Addison)


An Hour or Two Sacred to Sorrow (Richard Steele)


Twenty-four Hours in London (Richard Steele)


Love-Letters (Richard Steele)


Samuel Johnson


The Boarding House


The Solitude of the Country


Maria Edgeworth


An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification


Charles Lamb


New Year's Eve


A Chapter on Ears


Dream Children: A Reverie


The Superannuated Man


William Hazlitt


On Going a Journey


On the Pleasure of Hating


The Fight


Robert Louis Stevenson


The Lantern-Bearers


An Apology for Idlers


On Marriage


Max Beerbohm


Going Out for a Walk


Laughter


G. K. Chesterton


A Piece of Chalk


On Running After One's Hat


Virginia Woolf


Street Haunting


The Death of the Moth


George Orwell


Such, Such Were the Joys


Ivan Turgenev


The Execution of Tropmann


Lu Hsun


This Too Is Life


Death


Junichiro Tanizaki


In Praise of Shadows


Walter Benjamin


Unpacking My Library


Hashish in Marseilles


Jorge Luis Borges


Blindness


Hubert Butler


Beside the Nore


Aunt Harriet


E. M. Cioran


Some Blind Alleys: A Letter


Roland Barthes


Leaving the Movie Theater


Natalia Ginzburg


He and I


Carlos Fuentes


How I Started to Write


Wole Soyinka


Why Do I Fast?


Sara Suleri


Meatless Days


Henry David Thoreau


Walking


H. L. Mencken


On Being an American


Robert Benchley


My Face


James Thurber


The Secret Life of James Thurber


F. Scott Fitzgerald


The Crack-Up


E. B. White


Once More to the Lake


The Ring of Time


M. F. K. Fisher


Once a Tramp, Always


Mary McCarthy


My Confession


Seymour Krim


For My Brothers and Sisters in the Failure Business


James Baldwin


Notes of a Native Son


Alas, Poor Richard


Gore Vidal


Some Memories of the Glorious Bird and an Earlier Self


Adrienne Rich


Split at the Root


Edward Hoagland


The Courage of Turtles


The Threshold and the Jolt of Pain


Wendell Berry


An Entrance to the Woods


Joan Didion


Goodbye to All That


In Bed


Annie Dillard


Seeing


Richard Selzer


The Knife


Phillip Lopate


Against Joie de Vivre


Scott Russell Sanders


Under the Influence


Gayle Pemberton


Do He Have Your Number, Mr. Jeffrey?


Richard Rodriguez


Late Victorians


Selected Bibliography