Essay English and American Author:edited by Charles W. Eliot Contents are listed by Author:Works included — William Makepeace Thackeray: Jonathan Swift — John Henry Newman: The Idea of a University (I., II., & III.) — Matthew Arnold: The Study of Poetry — John Ruskin: Sesame and Lilies (Lecture I. & II.) — Walter Bagehot: John Milton — Thomas Henry Huxley: Science and Culture — Edward Augustus Freeman: Race and ... more »Language
Robert Louis Stevenson: Truth of Intercourse. also: Samuel Pepys
William Ellery Channing: On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes
Edgar Allan Poe: The Poetic Principle
Henry David Thoreau: Walking
James Russell Lowell: Abraham Lincoln. also: Democracy« less