English Essayists

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Excerpt from English Essayists: A Reader's Handbook This is a handbook for readers of English essays. The compiler knows of few things more subject to abuse than books about books. If used independently, or deliberately read from cover to cover and dismissed with that, this book, he thinks, will be abused. It is intended to accompany the reading of essays, and to serve as a sort of reading-glass for the clearer disclosure of their distinguishing characteristics, their merits, their delights. For experienced readers of essays it offers little, beginners and occasional readers it should serve to make rapidly more experienced. A meritorious essay, like any other piece of real literature, has distinction and worth quite apart from other essays and from the author who wrote it. More definitely than most kinds of literature, however, the essay acquires added interest from a knowledge of other essays and from acquaintance with the author as a man. The subjective quality of the essay, the painting of self which philosophy no less than tradition assigns to it as a distinguishing feature, makes the reason for this readily apparent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.