The English essay and essayists
1915
Introduction. -Anticipations of the essay. -The aphoristic essayists. -The character-writers. -Miscellaneous essayists of the seventeenth century. -The Queen Anne essayists. -The imitators of Steele and Addison. -The transition from the eighteenth century. -The early reviewers of the nineteenth century; some of their victims, and others. -The early magazines of the nineteenth century. -The historian-essayists. -The latter half of the nineteenth century. -Some essayists of yesterday. -Index 26 31 35 52












