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The English essay and essayist /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Hugh, 1855-1939
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, Toronto : New York : J.M. Dent & sons, ltd.; E. P. Dutton & co., 1915.
Series:Channels of English literature.
Subjects:
Authors, English.
English essays > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Anticipations of the essay
  • The aphoristic essayists
  • The character-writers
  • Miscellaneous essayists of the seventeenth century
  • The Queen Anne essayists
  • The imitators of Steele and Addison
  • The transition from the eighteenth century
  • The early reviewers of the nineteenth century: some of their victims, and others
  • The early magazines of the nineteenth century
  • The historian-essayists
  • The latter half of the nineteenth century
  • Some essyaists of yesterday
  • Index.