Harvard Classics, Vol. 28 Essays

Essays

English and American

The dozen nineteenth-century authors anthologized in this volume include the great English prose artists Arnold and Ruskin and the American cultural heroes Thoreau and Lowell. Their subjects range from personal biographies on Milton, Swift and Lincoln to topical musings on education, philosophy and literature.

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Contents

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

William Makepeace Thackeray Introductory Note Jonathan Swift John Henry Newman Introductory Note The Idea of a University I. What Is a University? II. Site of a University III. University Life at Athens Matthew Arnold Introductory Note The Study of Poetry John Ruskin Introductory Note Sesame and Lilies Lecture I.—Sesame: Of Kings’ Treasuries Lecture II.—Lilies: Of Queens’ Gardens Walter Bagehot Introductory Note John Milton (1859) Thomas Henry Huxley Introductory Note Science and Culture Edward Augustus Freeman Introductory Note Race and Language Robert Louis Stevenson Introductory Note Truth of Intercourse Samuel Pepys William Ellery Channing Introductory Note On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes Introductory Remarks Lecture I Lecture II Edgar Allan Poe Introductory Note The Poetic Principle Henry David Thoreau Introductory Note Walking [1862] James Russell Lowell Introductory Note Abraham Lincoln, 1864–1865 Democracy