English essays
Subtitle: from Sir Philip Sidney to Macualay
By: with introductions and notes ; edited by Charles W. Eliot
Series: The Harvard classics; Harvard classics
Publisher: P.F. Collier
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Poetry; Early works to 1800; Philosophy; Poésie; Ouvrages avant 1800; Philosophie
Other titles: Five-foot shelf of books.
Notes: Book 27 in the series.

Spine subtitle: The five-foot shelf of books.
Table of contents: title: The defense of poetry / Sir Philip Sidney; title: On Shakespeare / Ben Jonson; title: On Bacon / Ben Jonson; title: Of agriculture / Abraham Cowley; title: The vision of Mirza / Joseph Addison; title: Westminster Abbey / Joseph Addison; title: The spectator club / Sir Richard Steele; title: Hints towards an essay on conversation / Jonathan Swift; title: A treatise on good manners and good breeding / Jonathan Swift; title: A letter of advice to a young poet / Jonathan Swift; title: On the death of Esther Johnson (Stella) / Jonathan Swift; title: The shortest-way with the dissenter / Daniel Defoe; title: 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 / Leight Hunt; title: On the realities of imagination / Leigh Hunt; title: On the tragedies of Shakspere / 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.