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This 1833 follow-up to Lamb's popular Essays of Elia (1823) collects more of the essays that established his reputation as one of the supreme English masters of the form.  Included is what many critics consider to be his best short work, "Old China," as well as the essays “Christ’s Hospital Five-and-Thirty...

English essayist William Hazlitt demonstrates the inseparable connection between laughter and tears in this extraordinary collection of lectures. Proposing that both comedy and tragedy are intensely concerned with the human condition, Hazlitt examines the similar foundations of the two, making his case with his characteristic eloquence and verve.

The years 1801 to 1808 saw the emergence of Leigh Hunt as a public figure on the London literary scene, and his appreciation of good books and great writers was highly respected. Collected here are such essays as “Deaths of Little Children,” “An Earth upon Heaven,” “Shakespeare’s Birthday,” and “A Few Thoughts on Sleep.”

Robert Southey (1774–1843) was a British Romantic poet, member of the “Lake Poets,” and England’s Poet Laureate from 1813 to his death in 1843. He wrote the first version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears in 1834. Dowden’s acclaimed biography of Southey, part of the popular English Men of Letters series, is an excellent resource for anyone passionate about poetry and literature.

First published in 1895, Collected Impressions is Saintsbury’s lively and individual evaluation of the great Victorian writers from Thackeray through Ruskin. His study of Matthew Arnold is for many the definitive account of the figure who loomed largest in the minds of late Victorian literarati. ...

The great Victorian poet offers essays on Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman, Philip Massinger, John Say, Robert Davenport, Thomas Nabbes, Richard Brome, James Shirley, Beaumont, and Fletcher. Swinburne’s deep love, complete study, and worship of the Elizabethan and Jacobean writers shines through on every page.

Published in 1915, this is a collection of four never-before printed essays: "Tom Hood: The Man, the Wit, and the Poet"—an expanded version of a lecture delivered in California—“Henry Carey: The Author of ‘Sally in Our Alley,’” “George Lillo and ‘The London Merchant,’” and "Samuel Richardson: The Father of the English Novel."  

Countless readers have found peace of mind and gathered inner strength from savoring this collection of Epictetus' sayings. Unlike many ephemeral and faddish dispensations of wisdom, Epictetus' philosophy lacks nothing in depth and complexity. It has been a staple of Western education for centuries,...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. One of the most interesting features of A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is the symbiosis between a radical empiricism and a bold and uncompromising idealism. An artful combination of analytical...

Part of the highly respected English Men of Letters series, Thomas H. Huxley’s engaging biography of the Scottish philosopher and author David Hume (1711–1776)—one of the most important figures in the history of modern philosophy—examines his childhood, his enormously popular A History of England, and his landmark philosophical theories. 

This 1867 survey of philosophy is enlivened by portraits and discussions of Thales, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Euclid, through more modern philosophers such as David Hume and Immanuel Kant, ending with Auguste Comte. Sections focus on topics, such as the nature of the universe and the origin of knowledge, and groups, such as the Sophists and the Cynics.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.   An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is the thesis of a thinker who was a scientist, psychologist, metaphysician, and skeptic who continues to fascinate contemporary minds. The product of both...

"Religion's second-best seller." -- Walter Elwell, describing The Imitation of Christ as second only to the Bible in sales and popularity among religious readers.Through its realistic delineation of the complexities of human existence, and in its soul-building optimism about the benefits of aspiring...

What do the most celebrated writers say about writing? Among those sharing their wisdom and experience on fiction, nonfiction, narrative, and style are Robert Louis Stevenson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James. Intended for students, this collection is also accessible to the general reader.