The English essay and essayists / by Hugh Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Hugh, 1855-1939.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Channels of English literature

The Channels of English literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, English.

English essays--History and criticism.

English essays.

Physical Description:

vii, 343 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Toronto : J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. ; New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., 1915.

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 essayists of yesterday

Index.

OCLC:

351978