The Art of the personal essay : an anthology from the classical era to the present / selected and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lopate, Phillip, 1943-

Teachers & Writers Collaborative.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Essays.

Essays--Translations into English.

Local Subjects:

Essays--Translations into English.

Genre:

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

liv, 777 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Anchor Books, [1994]

Summary:

"For more than four hundred years the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this lively, fertile genre. Distinguished from the formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its drive toward candor and confession, and its often quirky first-person voice, the personal essay offers above all a feast of individuality."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

On noise ; Asthma ; Scipio's villa ; Slaves / Seneca

Consolation to his wife / Plutarch

Hateful things / Sei Shonagon

Essays in idleness (selections) / Kenko

Pleasure boat studio / Ou-Yang Hsiu

Of books ; Of a monstrous child ; Of some verses on Virgil / Michel de Montaigne

Of greatness / Abraham Cowley

Nicolini and the lions ; An hour or two sacred to sorrow ; Twenty-four hours in London ; Love-letters / Addison & Steele

The boarding house ; The solitude of the country / Samuel Johnson

An essay on the noble science of self-justification / Maria Edgeworth

New Year's Eve ; A chapter on ears ; Dream children : a reverie ; The superannuated man / Charles Lamb

On going a journey ; On the pleasure of hating ; The fight / William Hazlitt

The lantern-bearers ; An apology for idlers ; On marriage / Robert Louis Stevenson

Going out for a walk ; Laughter / Max Beerbohm

A piece of chalk ; On running after one's hat / G.K. Chesterton

Street haunting ; The death of the moth / Virginia Woolf

Such, such were the joys / George Orwell

The execution of Tropmann / Ivan Turgenev

This too is life ; Death / Lu Hsun

In praise of shadows / Junichiro Tanizaki

Unpacking my library ; Hashish in Marseilles / Walter Benjamin

Blindness / Jorge Luis Borges

Beside the nore ; Aunt Harriet / Hubert Butler

Some blind alleys : a letter / E.M. Cioran

Leaving the movie theater / Roland Barthes

He and I / Natalia Ginzburg

How I started to write / Carlos Fuentes

Why do I fast? / Wole Soyinka

Meatless days / Sara Suleri

Walking / Henry David Thoreau

On being an American / H.L. Mencken

My face / Robert Benchley

The secret life of James Thurber / James Thurber

The crack-up / F. Scott Fitzgerald

Once more to the lake ; The ring of time / E.B. White

Once a tramp, always / M.F.K. Fisher

My confession / Mary McCarthy

For my brothers and sisters in the failure business / Seymour Krim

Notes of a native son ; Alas, poor Richard / James Baldwin

Some memories of the glorious bird and an earlier self / Gore Vidal

Split at the root / Adrienne Rich

The courage of turtles ; The threshold and the jolt of pain / Edward Hoagland

An entrance to the woods / Wendell Berry

Goodbye to all that ; In bed / Joan Didion

Seeing / Annie Dillard

The knife / Richard Selzer

Against joie de vivre / Phillip Lopate

Under the influence / Scott Russell Sanders

Do he have your number, Mr. Jeffrey? / Gayle Pemberton

Late Victorians / Richard Rodriguez.

Notes:

"A Teachers & Writers Collaborative book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [771]-777).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy inscribed "Dresden From [Stasko Stojkovic] Christmas 1995" on front flyleaf.

ISBN:

0385422989

9780385422987

OCLC:

28724048

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