Archives for May, 2010
A Preface to My Husband’s Poetry by Mary Shelley
TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824. In nobil sangue vita umile e queta, Ed ...
The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe
The Philosophy of Composition by Edgar Allan Poe Charles Dickens, in a note now lying before me, ...
Mark Twain on First Getting Published (1906)
Mark Twain on First Getting Published (1906) My experiences as an author began early in 1867. ...
What I Think of Leo Tolstoy by William Dean Howells
What I Think of Leo Tolstoy by William Dean Howells I come now, though not quite ...
CRIME AND EDUCATION by Charles Dickens
CRIME AND EDUCATION by Charles Dickens I offer no apology for entreating the attention of the readers ...
My Thoughts on Walt Whitman by Willa Cather
My Thoughts on Walt Whitman by Willa Cather Speaking of monuments reminds one that there is more ...
IN DEFENSE OF BOOKS by John Milton
IN DEFENSE OF BOOKS by John Milton I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment ...
DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE by N. P. Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis was the most famous and well-paid magazine writers of his time. He worked with Edar Allan Poe
What I Think of These Three Writers by Edgar Allen Poe
What I Think of These Three Writers by Edgar Allen Poe OF WILLIS, BRYANT, HALLECK, AND MACAULAY Whatever ...
Mark Twain is a Slob by Willa Cather
Mark Twain is a Slob by Willa Cather If there is anything which should make an American ...
My Visit with Ralph Waldo Emerson by Walt Whitman
A VISIT, AT THE LAST, TO R. W. EMERSON Concord, Mass.—Out here on a visit—elastic, mellow, ...
The Madness VOLTAIRE by JOHN MORLEY
JOHN MORLEY by Born in 1838; graduated from Oxford in 1859; editor of the Fortnightly Review in 1867, and of The Pall Mall Gazette in 1880; elected to Parliament in 1883; made Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1886, and again in 1892; made Secretary for India in 1906; published "Edmund Burke" in 1867; "Voltaire" in 1872; "Rousseau" in 1876; a "Life of Richard Cobden" in 1881; and a "Life of Gladstone" in 1904.
