ABSTRACT
This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|102 pages
A
entry |4 pages
Achebe, Chinua
entry |5 pages
Addison, Joseph
entry |7 pages
Adorno, Theodor W.
entry |3 pages
The Adventurer
entry |4 pages
Agee, James
entry |3 pages
Die Akzente
entry |6 pages
Alain
entry |3 pages
Amar y Borbón, Josefa
entry |19 pages
American Essay
entry |3 pages
The American Scholar
entry |3 pages
The Anatomy of Melancholy
entry |4 pages
Andersch, Alfred
entry |3 pages
Aphorism
entry |4 pages
Apothegm
entry |4 pages
Arciniegas, Germán
entry |5 pages
Arendt, Hannah
entry |3 pages
Areopagitica
entry |6 pages
Arnold, Matthew
entry |3 pages
Athenäum
entry |4 pages
The Atlantic Monthly
entry |4 pages
Auden, W.H.
entry |6 pages
Australian Essay
entry |5 pages
Autobiographical Essay
entry |5 pages
Ayala, Francisco
entry |4 pages
Azaña, Manuel
entry |5 pages
Azorín
chapter 2|185 pages
B
entry |6 pages
Bacon, Francis
entry |6 pages
Baldwin, James
entry |4 pages
Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez de
entry |4 pages
Barańczak, Stanisław
entry |6 pages
Barthes, Roland
entry |4 pages
Bataille, Georges
entry |5 pages
Baudelaire, Charles
entry |4 pages
Bayle, Pierre
entry |4 pages
Beauvoir, Simone de
entry |4 pages
Beerbohm, Max
entry |4 pages
Belinskii, Vissarion
entry |3 pages
Belleau, André
entry |4 pages
Bello, Andrés
entry |5 pages
Belloc, Hilaire
entry |4 pages
Belyi, Andrei
entry |4 pages
Benchley, Robert
entry |4 pages
Benda, Julien
entry |2 pages
Bengtsson, Frans G.
entry |4 pages
Benjamin, Walter
entry |5 pages
Benn, Gottfried
entry |3 pages
Bense, Max
entry |5 pages
Benson, A.C.
entry |5 pages
Bernanos, Georges
entry |4 pages
Berry, Wendell
entry |5 pages
Biography and the Essay
entry |3 pages
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
entry |6 pages
Blok, Aleksandr
entry |4 pages
Borchardt, Rudolf
entry |4 pages
Borges, Jorge Luis
entry |4 pages
Bourget, Paul
entry |4 pages
Boy-Żeleński
entry |3 pages
Brault, Jacques
entry |5 pages
Březina, Otokar
entry |20 pages
British Essay
entry |5 pages
Brodsky, Joseph
entry |4 pages
Brown, E.K.
entry |5 pages
Browne, Sir Thomas
entry |3 pages
Brunetière, Ferdinand
entry |4 pages
Brzozowski, Stanisław
entry |4 pages
Buckley, Vincent
entry |4 pages
Buies, Arthur
entry |4 pages
Bulgarian Essay
entry |5 pages
Burckhardt, Jacob Christoph
entry |5 pages
Burke, Edmund
entry |4 pages
Burke, Kenneth
entry |5 pages
Burroughs, John
entry |4 pages
Butler, Hubert
entry |4 pages
Butor, Michel
chapter 3|139 pages
C
entry |3 pages
Cadalso, José
entry |4 pages
Călinescu, George
entry |3 pages
Calvino, Italo
entry |5 pages
Camus, Albert
entry |9 pages
Canadian Essay (English)
entry |7 pages
Canadian Essay (French)
entry |3 pages
Cândido, Antônio
entry |5 pages
Canetti, Elias
entry |4 pages
Čapek, Karel
entry |4 pages
Cardoza y Aragón, Luis
entry |5 pages
Carlyle, Thomas
entry |4 pages
Carman, Bliss
entry |5 pages
Castellanos, Rosario
entry |5 pages
Castro, Américo
entry |4 pages
Cattaneo, Carlo
entry |4 pages
Chacel, Rosa
entry |3 pages
Chapter
entry |4 pages
Character Sketch
entry |4 pages
Characters
entry |4 pages
Chateaubriand
entry |3 pages
Chernyshevskii, Nikolai
entry |5 pages
Chesterfield, Earl of
entry |4 pages
Chesterton, G.K.
entry |7 pages
Chinese Essay
entry |5 pages
Cicero
entry |4 pages
Cioran, E.M.
entry |3 pages
Clarke, Marcus
entry |6 pages
Classical Influences
entry |6 pages
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
entry |3 pages
The Compleat Angler
entry |4 pages
The Confessions
entry |3 pages
Connolly, Cyril
entry |4 pages
Cornwallis, Sir William, the Younger
entry |4 pages
Critical Essay
entry |7 pages
Croce, Benedetto
entry |3 pages
Cuadernos Americanos
entry |3 pages
Cunha, Euclides da
entry |5 pages
Curtius, Ernst Robert
chapter 4|75 pages
D
entry |3 pages
Dalin, Olof von
entry |4 pages
Darío, Rubén
entry |6 pages
Darwin, Charles
entry |4 pages
Davies, Robertson
entry |3 pages
The Defence of Poesy
entry |4 pages
Defoe, Daniel
entry |4 pages
De Quincey, Thomas
entry |3 pages
De Voto, Bernard
entry |6 pages
Dialogue
entry |5 pages
Diary
entry |6 pages
Diderot, Denis
entry |5 pages
Didion, Joan
entry |5 pages
Dillard, Annie
entry |3 pages
Discourse on Method
entry |4 pages
Donne, John
entry |4 pages
Dostoevskii, Fedor
entry |5 pages
Douglass, Frederick
entry |4 pages
Du Bois, W.E.B.
entry |5 pages
Du Bos, Charles
entry |5 pages
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
chapter 5|72 pages
E
entry |4 pages
Eco, Umberto
entry |4 pages
Edgeworth, Maria
entry |3 pages
The Edinburgh Review
entry |4 pages
Eglinton, John
entry |5 pages
Eiseley, Loren
entry |4 pages
Ekelund, Vilhelm
entry |5 pages
Eliot, George
entry |5 pages
Eliot, T.S.
entry |7 pages
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
entry |3 pages
Encyclopedias and the Essay
entry |4 pages
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
entry |6 pages
Erasmus
entry |3 pages
El Espectador
entry |6 pages
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
entry |6 pages
Essay Film
entry |4 pages
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
entry |3 pages
An Essay on Comedy
entry |4 pages
An Essay on Criticism
entry |3 pages
An Essay on Man
entry |4 pages
An Essay on the Principle of Population
entry |3 pages
The Examiner
chapter 6|94 pages
F
entry |3 pages
Die Fackel
entry |4 pages
Familiar Essay
entry |4 pages
Feijóo y Montenegro, Benito Jerónimo
entry |4 pages
Ferreira, Vergílio
entry |4 pages
Feuerbach, Ludwig
entry |3 pages
Feuilleton
entry |6 pages
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
entry |5 pages
Fielding, Henry
entry |4 pages
Fisher, M.F.K.
entry |5 pages
Fontenelle, Bernard de
entry |5 pages
Forster, E.M.
entry |4 pages
Forster, Georg
entry |4 pages
Franklin, Benjamin
entry |3 pages
Freire, Paulo
entry |25 pages
French Essay
entry |6 pages
Freud, Sigmund
entry |4 pages
Freyre, Gilberto
entry |4 pages
Frisch, Max
entry |5 pages
Frye, Northrop
entry |5 pages
Fuentes, Carlos
entry |4 pages
Fuller, Margaret
chapter 7|112 pages
G
entry |3 pages
Ganivet, Ángel
entry |4 pages
Gass, William H.
entry |3 pages
The Georgia Review
entry |27 pages
German Essay
entry |4 pages
Gershenzon, Mikhail
entry |5 pages
Gide, André
entry |3 pages
Giliarovskii, Vladimir
entry |4 pages
Ginzburg, Lidiia
entry |4 pages
Ginzburg, Natalia
entry |3 pages
Godwin, William
entry |6 pages
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
entry |4 pages
Goldsmith, Oliver
entry |4 pages
Gombrowicz, Witold
entry |3 pages
González, José Luis
entry |4 pages
Gordimer, Nadine
entry |5 pages
Gor'kii, Maksim
entry |4 pages
Gould, Stephen Jay
entry |4 pages
Gourmont, Remy de
entry |4 pages
Gracián, Baltasar
entry |4 pages
Gramsci, Antonio
entry |5 pages
Grass, Günter
entry |4 pages
Green, Dorothy
entry |4 pages
Greene, Graham
entry |3 pages
Die Grenzboten
entry |5 pages
Grimm, Herman
entry |4 pages
Groulx, Lionel
entry |5 pages
Guicciardini, Francesco
chapter 8|99 pages
H
entry |3 pages
Haig-Brown, Roderick
entry |2 pages
Hamm, Peter
entry |4 pages
Harper's
entry |4 pages
Havel, Václav
entry |6 pages
Hazlitt, William
entry |3 pages
Heiberg, Gunnar
entry |5 pages
Heidegger, Martin
entry |4 pages
Henríquez Ureña, Pedro
entry |4 pages
Herbert, Zbigniew
entry |6 pages
Herder, Johann Gottfried
entry |4 pages
Herling-Grudziński, Gustaw
entry |6 pages
Herzen, Aleksandr
entry |4 pages
Historical Essay
entry |3 pages
Hoagland, Edward
entry |4 pages
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
entry |4 pages
Holberg, Ludvig
entry |5 pages
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
entry |4 pages
Hope, A.D.
entry |4 pages
Hostos, Eugenio María de
entry |4 pages
Howe, Irving
entry |4 pages
Howe, Joseph
entry |5 pages
Howells, William Dean
entry |4 pages
Huch, Ricarda
entry |5 pages
Hume, David
entry |5 pages
Humorous Essay
entry |5 pages
Hunt, Leigh
entry |4 pages
Huxley, Aldous
entry |5 pages
Huxley, T.H.
chapter 9|11 pages
I
entry |3 pages
The Idler
entry |5 pages
Irving, Washington
entry |5 pages
Ivanov, Viacheslav
chapter 10|39 pages
J
entry |5 pages
James, Henry
entry |4 pages
James, William
entry |7 pages
Japanese Essay
entry |4 pages
Jefferies, Richard
entry |7 pages
Johnson, Samuel
entry |4 pages
Journal
entry |3 pages
Journal des Débats
entry |3 pages
Journalism and the Essay
entry |4 pages
Jovellanos, Gaspar Melchor de
entry |4 pages
Jünger, Ernst
chapter 11|27 pages
K
entry |3 pages
Kamo no Chōmei
entry |5 pages
Kant, Immanuel
entry |3 pages
Kenkō
entry |2 pages
Kjær, Nils
entry |5 pages
Kleist, Heinrich von
entry |4 pages
Kołakowski, Leszek
entry |4 pages
Kott, Jan
entry |4 pages
Krutch, Joseph Wood
chapter 12|97 pages
L
entry |4 pages
La Bruyère, Jean de
entry |6 pages
Lamb, Charles
entry |2 pages
Lange, Per
entry |4 pages
La Rochefoucauld
entry |4 pages
Larose, Jean
entry |5 pages
Larra, Mariano José de
entry |5 pages
Latin American Essay
entry |5 pages
Leacock, Stephen
entry |4 pages
Le Moyne, Jean
entry |4 pages
Leont'ev, Konstantin
entry |4 pages
Leopardi, Giacomo
entry |4 pages
Leopold, Aldo
entry |5 pages
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
entry |4 pages
Letter
entry |5 pages
Levi, Primo
entry |5 pages
Lewis, C.S.
entry |3 pages
Liang Yuchun
entry |3 pages
Liberté
entry |4 pages
Liebling, A.J.
entry |3 pages
Lima la horrible
entry |13 pages
Literary Theory and the Essay
entry |5 pages
Liu Zongyuan
entry |3 pages
Lopez, Barry
entry |3 pages
Lourenço, Eduardo
entry |4 pages
Lu Xun
entry |6 pages
Lukács, Georg
chapter 13|189 pages
M
entry |4 pages
McArthur, Peter
entry |4 pages
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
entry |4 pages
McCarthy, Mary
entry |5 pages
Machiavelli, Niccoló
entry |4 pages
MacLennan, Hugh
entry |3 pages
MacMechan, Archibald
entry |3 pages
Macphail, Andrew
entry |4 pages
McPhee, John
entry |5 pages
Madariaga, Salvador de
entry |4 pages
Maeztu, Ramiro de
entry |5 pages
Mailer, Norman
entry |4 pages
Mallarmé, Stéphane
entry |4 pages
Mallea, Eduardo
entry |5 pages
Mandel'shtam, Osip
entry |5 pages
Mann, Heinrich
entry |5 pages
Mann, Thomas
entry |4 pages
Marías, Julian
entry |4 pages
Mariátegui, José Carlos
entry |6 pages
Marivaux
entry |4 pages
Markov, Georgi
entry |4 pages
Martí, José
entry |4 pages
Martín Gaite, Carmen
entry |4 pages
Martineau, Harriet
entry |5 pages
Martínez Estrada, Ezequiel
entry |5 pages
Marx, Karl
entry |5 pages
Massis, Henri
entry |3 pages
Maxim
entry |5 pages
Mazzini, Giuseppe
entry |5 pages
Medical Essay
entry |3 pages
Meditation
entry |3 pages
Meditations
entry |6 pages
Mencken, H.L.
entry |4 pages
Mendelssohn, Moses
entry |4 pages
Menéndez y Pelayo, Marcelino
entry |4 pages
Merton, Thomas
entry |5 pages
Meynell, Alice
entry |5 pages
Mill, John Stuart
entry |4 pages
Miłosz, Czesław
entry |4 pages
Mitford, Mary Russell
entry |4 pages
Momaday, N. Scott
entry |4 pages
Monsiváis, Carlos
entry |9 pages
Montaigne, Michel de
entry |4 pages
Montale, Eugenio
entry |4 pages
Montalvo, Juan
entry |4 pages
Montherlant, Henry de
entry |4 pages
Moral Essay
entry |3 pages
Morley, Christopher
entry |5 pages
Morris, William
entry |5 pages
Muir, Edwin
entry |4 pages
Muir, John
entry |5 pages
Mumford, Lewis
entry |4 pages
Murdoch, Walter
entry |5 pages
Musil, Robert
entry |4 pages
Mutafov, Chavdar
chapter 14|41 pages
N
entry |5 pages
Nashe, Thomas
entry |4 pages
Nature Essay
entry |3 pages
Die neue Rundschau
entry |4 pages
New Journalism
entry |6 pages
The New Yorker
entry |5 pages
Newman, John Henry
entry |3 pages
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
entry |7 pages
Nietzsche, Friedrich
entry |3 pages
Nouvelle Revue Française
entry |5 pages
Novalis
entry |4 pages
Novikov, Nikolai
chapter 15|38 pages
O
entry |4 pages
Ocampo, Victoria
entry |3 pages
Odobescu, Alexandru
entry |4 pages
Oliphant, Margaret
entry |3 pages
On the Sublime
entry |5 pages
d'Ors, Eugenio
entry |10 pages
Ortega y Gasset, José
entry |6 pages
Orwell, George
entry |3 pages
Ouellette, Fernand
entry |4 pages
Ouyang Xiu
entry |4 pages
Ozick, Cynthia
chapter 16|114 pages
P
entry |4 pages
Paine, Thomas
entry |3 pages
Palmer, Nettie
entry |3 pages
Palmer, Vance
entry |3 pages
Paludan, Jacob
entry |4 pages
Pamphlet
entry |4 pages
Pardo Bazán, Emilia
entry |6 pages
Partisan Review
entry |5 pages
Pascal, Blaise
entry |5 pages
Pater, Walter
entry |4 pages
Paz, Octavio
entry |3 pages
Péguy, Charles
entry |2 pages
Pensée
entry |4 pages
Perelman, S.J.
entry |5 pages
Pérez de Ayala, Ramón
entry |3 pages
Periodical Essay
entry |10 pages
Periodicals
entry |3 pages
Personal Essay
entry |4 pages
Philosophical Essay
entry |4 pages
The Physiology of Taste
entry |4 pages
Picón-Salas, Mariano
entry |6 pages
Plato
entry |3 pages
Plutarch
entry |3 pages
The Poetic Art
entry |3 pages
Polemical Essay
entry |5 pages
Polish Essay
entry |6 pages
Portuguese Essay
entry |5 pages
Pound, Ezra
entry |3 pages
Preface
entry |6 pages
Priestley, J.B.
entry |4 pages
Pritchett, V.S.
entry |7 pages
Propaganda
entry |5 pages
Pushkin, Aleksandr
chapter 17|3 pages
Q
entry |3 pages
The Quarterly Review
chapter 18|82 pages
R
entry |4 pages
The Rambler
entry |5 pages
Ranke, Leopold von
entry |5 pages
Read, Herbert
entry |6 pages
Religious Essay
entry |7 pages
Renan, Ernest
entry |4 pages
Reportage
entry |4 pages
Repplier, Agnes
entry |3 pages
Rêverie
entry |3 pages
Review
entry |3 pages
A Review of the Affairs of France
entry |3 pages
Revista de Occidente
entry |3 pages
Revue des Deux Mondes
entry |3 pages
Rexroth, Kenneth
entry |5 pages
Reyes, Alfonso
entry |4 pages
Rich, Adrienne
entry |4 pages
Richler, Mordecai
entry |5 pages
Rodó, José Enrique
entry |5 pages
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
entry |5 pages
Rozanov, Vasilii
entry |5 pages
Ruskin, John
entry |12 pages
Russian Essay
chapter |219 pages
S
entry |4 pages
Sabato, Ernesto
entry |4 pages
Sacks, Oliver
entry |6 pages
Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin
entry |5 pages
Saint-Évremond
entry |4 pages
Saltykov-Shchedrin
entry |4 pages
Sanders, Scott Russell
entry |4 pages
Santayana, George
entry |6 pages
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino
entry |5 pages
Sartre, Jean-Paul
entry |4 pages
Satire
entry |3 pages
Satiric Essay
entry |8 pages
Scandinavian Essay
entry |5 pages
Schiller, Friedrich von
entry |5 pages
Schlegel, Friedrich
entry |6 pages
Schopenhauer, Arthur
entry |3 pages
Schröder, Rudolf Alexander
entry |3 pages
Science Essay
entry |3 pages
Sei Shōnagon
entry |4 pages
Selzer, Richard
entry |4 pages
Seneca
entry |5 pages
Sermon
entry |4 pages
Serrès, Michel
entry |3 pages
Sévigné, Madame de
entry |4 pages
Shaftesbury, Earl of
entry |5 pages
Shaw, George Bernard
entry |4 pages
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
entry |5 pages
Shestov, Lev
entry |6 pages
Shklovskii, Viktor
entry |5 pages
Simmel, Georg
entry |4 pages
Siniavskii, Andrei
entry |3 pages
Slaveikov, Pencho
entry |6 pages
Sociological Essay
entry |3 pages
El Sol
entry |4 pages
Soloukhin, Vladimir
entry |4 pages
Solov'ev, Vladimir
entry |3 pages
Sønderby, Knud
entry |3 pages
Sontag, Susan
entry |3 pages
Sørensen, Villy
entry |4 pages
Southey, Robert
entry |4 pages
Sovremennik
entry |4 pages
Soyinka, Wole
entry |11 pages
Spanish Essay
entry |15 pages
Spanish American Essay
entry |6 pages
The Spectator
entry |4 pages
The Spectator
entry |4 pages
Staël, Madame de
entry |5 pages
Steele, Richard
entry |3 pages
Stegner, Wallace
entry |5 pages
Steinhardt, N.
entry |4 pages
Stempowski, Jerzy
entry |4 pages
Stephen, Leslie
entry |5 pages
Stevenson, Robert Louis
entry |4 pages
Strachey, Lytton
entry |4 pages
Su Shi
entry |3 pages
Sur
entry |3 pages
Susman, Margarete
entry |5 pages
Swift, Jonathan
chapter 20|74 pages
T
entry |4 pages
Taine, Hippolyte
entry |4 pages
The Tatler
entry |4 pages
Temple, Sir William
entry |5 pages
Der Teutsche Merkur
entry |4 pages
Thackeray, William Makepeace
entry |4 pages
Thibaudet, Albert
entry |4 pages
Thomas, Lewis
entry |6 pages
Thoreau, Henry David
entry |4 pages
Thurber James
entry |3 pages
Tierno Galván, Enrique
entry |4 pages
Times Literary Supplement
entry |5 pages
Tolstoi, Lev
entry |4 pages
Topical Essay
entry |4 pages
Torres Villarroel, Diego de
entry |4 pages
Tract
entry |4 pages
Travel Essay
entry |2 pages
Treatise
entry |3 pages
Trilling, Lionel
entry |3 pages
Trottier, Pierre
entry |4 pages
Tsvetaeva, Marina
entry |4 pages
Turgenev, Ivan
entry |4 pages
Twain, Mark
entry |4 pages
Tynan, Kenneth
chapter 21|10 pages
U
entry |7 pages
Unamuno, Miguel de
entry |4 pages
Updike, John
chapter 22|26 pages
V
entry |3 pages
Vaculík, Ludvík
entry |4 pages
Vadeboncoeur, Pierre
entry |6 pages
Valéry, Paul
entry |4 pages
Varchi, Benedetto
entry |4 pages
Vasconcelos, José
entry |4 pages
Vidal, Gore
entry |6 pages
Voltaire
chapter 23|57 pages
W
entry |4 pages
Walker, Alice
entry |5 pages
Weber, Max
entry |3 pages
The Week
entry |6 pages
Weil, Simone
entry |3 pages
Die weissen Blätter
entry |4 pages
West, Rebecca
entry |5 pages
White, E.B.
entry |7 pages
Wieland, Christoph Martin
entry |4 pages
Wilde, Oscar
entry |5 pages
Wilson, Edmund
entry |4 pages
Wolf, Christa
entry |5 pages
Wolfe, Tom
entry |4 pages
Wollstonecraft, Mary
entry |6 pages
Woolf, Virginia
entry |3 pages
Wright, Judith
chapter 24|6 pages
Y
entry |4 pages
Yeats, William Butler
entry |3 pages
Yuan Hongdao
chapter 25|19 pages
Z
entry |5 pages
Zambrano, María
entry |5 pages
Zea, Leopoldo
entry |5 pages
Zhang Dai
entry |4 pages
Zhou Zuoren
entry |4 pages
Zubiri, Xavier
