The Harvard classics
Subtitle: English essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay
By: edited by Charles W. Eliot, with introductions and notes
Edition: Registered ed.
Series: Harvard classics -- v. 27
Publisher: P.F. Collier
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Copyright date: 1937
Subjects: English essays; Essais anglais
Other titles: English essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay; Addison, Steele, Swift, Defoe, Johnson, and others
Description: A collection of essays by the following: Sir Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Thomas de Quincey, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Notes: "The five-foot shelf of books."
Table of contents: title: The defense of Poesy / Philip Sidney; title: On Shakespeare ; On Bacon / Ben Jonson; title: Of agriculture / Abraham Cowley; title: Vison of Mirza ; Westminster Abbey / Joseph Addison; title: The spectator club / Richard Steele; title: Hints towards an essay on conversation ; a treatise on good manners and good breeding ; A letter of advice to a young poet ; On the death of Esther Johnson (Stella) / Jonathan Swift; title: The shortest-way with the dissenters ; The education of women / Daniel Defoe; title: Life of Addison, 1672-1719 / Samuel Johnson; title: Of the standard of taste / David Hume; title: Fallacies of anti-reformers / Sydney Smith; title: On poesy or art / Samuel Taylor Coleridge; title: Of persons one would wish to have seen / William Hazlitt; title: Deaths of little children ; On the realitites of imagination / Leigh Hunt; title: On the tragedies of Shakespeare / Charles Lamb; title: Levana and our ladies of sorrow / Thomas de Quincey; title: A defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley; title: Machiavelli / Thomas Babington Macaulay.