The English essay and essayists.
Series: The Channels of English literature
Publisher: Dent; Dutton
Published: 1915
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: English essays -- History and criticism; Authors, English
Table of contents: title: 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.