The Oxford Book of Essays /
The Oxford Book of Essays /
Chosen and Edited by John Gross.
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
- xxiii, 680 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xiv]-xviii).
Of truth ; Of revenge ; Of boldness ; Of innovations ; Of masques and triumphs / A chambermaid ; A fair and happy milkmaid / An antiquary ; A goold old man ; A pot-poet / How the distempers of these times should affect wise men / On dreams / Of anger / A degenerate noble / Of charity, of the love of God / Of avarice / "Cahucer" Good manners and good breeding ; A meditation upon a broom-stick / Thoughts in Westminster Abbey ; The Royal Exchange ; Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey ; Sir Roger at Vauxhall / On recollections of childhood / Upon affectation / The levee / The poor and their betters / Dignity and uses of biography ; Conversation ; Debtors' prisons (1) ; Debtors' prisons (2) / Of the dignity or meanness of human nature / On dress ; A little great man ; On national prejudices / On war / Dream children ; from On some of the old actors / On the pleasure of hating ; Brummelliana / Getting up on cold mornings / The knocking at the gat in Macbeth / from Signs of the times / from Lord Clive / On secrecy / Secular knowledge not a principle of action / The conservative / The haunted mind / "Bentham and Coleridge" City of London churches / Autor de mon chapeau / The plumber / Night and moonlight / The philosophy of Christianity / Thomas Carlyle / Heine and the Philistines from Evolution and ethics / Dull government / Talking about our troubles / from Autobiography / On knowing what gives us pleasure / Thoughts of God / Sandro Botticelli / Wasps / Disintroductions / The Ph.D. octopus / from London / Under the early stars / The acorn-gatherer / Aes triplex / "the true critic" Sir George Grove / The censor of plays / A visit to Walt Whitman / William James / Intellectual ambition ; Intuitive morality / Cordova / On the departure of a guest / On being modern-minded / "A clergyman" / The dream / A defence of Penny Dreadfuls ; On sandals and simplicity / Invective / My own centenary / Creighton / The libido for the ugly ; Funeral march / Evening parties / Harriette Wilson ; The death of the moth / Finnegans wake / The greatest Victorian / Insouciance / What there is to see at the zoo / Marie Lloyd / Symmetry and repitition / The necessary enemy / The sterner sex / The colloid and the crystal / On being the Sir Francis Bacon -- Sir Thomas Overbury -- John Earle -- Owen Felltham -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Thomas Fuller -- Samuel Butler -- Jeremy Taylor -- Abraham Cowley -- Jonathan Swift -- Joseph Addison -- Sir Richard Steele -- Lord Chesterfield -- Benjamin Franklin -- Henry Fielding -- Samuel Johnson -- David Hume -- Oliver Goldsmith -- James Boswell -- Charles Lamb -- William Hazlitt -- Leigh Hunt -- Thomas de Quincey -- Thomas Carlyle ; Lord Macaulay -- Sir Henry Taylor -- John Henry Newman -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- John Stuart Mill -- Charles Dickens -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Anthony Trollope -- Henry David Thoreau -- James Anthony Froude -- George Eliot -- Matthew Arnold -- T.H. Huxley -- Walter Bagehot -- Mark Rutherford -- Sir Leslie Stephen -- Samuel Butler -- Mark Twain -- Walter Pater -- W.H. Hudson -- Ambrose Bierce -- William James -- Henry James -- Alice Meynell -- Richard Jefferies -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Oscar Wilde -- George Bernard Shaw -- Joseph Conrad -- James G. Huneker -- John Jay Chapman -- George Santayana -- Arthur Symons -- Hilaire Belloc -- Bertrand Russel -- Sir Max Beerbohm -- Sir Winston Churchill -- G.K. Chesterton -- Sir Desmond McCarthy -- E.M. Forster -- Lytton Strachey -- H.L. Mencken -- Rose Macaulay -- Virginia Woolf -- James Stephens -- G.M. Young -- D.H. Lawrence -- Marianne Moore -- T.S. Eliot -- Sir Lewis Namier -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Rebecca West -- Joseph Wood Krutch -- (from Preface to the Fables) -- (from Coleridge) / (from Heinrich Heine) / (from The critic as artist) / About myself / Our half-Hogarth / The ant-lion / Reflections on Gandhi / Well-informed circles ... and how to move in them / The lost childhood / Adams at ease / A new Westminster / The faces of Buddha / The snout / What if--? : English versus German and French / In search of Nib-Joy / Young hunger / Churchill and Roosevelt To err is human / Bad poets / Thomas Hobbes / The apotheosis of Martin Luther King / The gangster as tragic hero / The Homburg hat / The people's victor / Movies on television / The marquis and the madame / The savage seventh / The crisp at the crossroads / Stranger in the village / Robert Graves and the twelve Caesars / La Paz / A visit from royalty / Is it alas, Yorick? / Columbus and Crusoe / The bankrupt man / At the dam / About face / A blizzard of tiny kisses / E.B. White -- V.S. Pritchett -- Cyril Connolly -- George Orwell -- Evelyn Waugh -- Graham Greene -- Lionel Trilling -- Sir John Betjeman -- Sir William Empson -- Loren Eiseley -- Jacques Barzun -- Maurice Richardson -- M.F.K. Fisher -- Sir Isaiah Berlin -- Lewis Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- H.R. Trevor-Roper -- Elizabeth Hardwick -- Robert Warshow -- Richard Cobb -- Conor Cruise O'Brien -- Pauline Kael -- D.J. Enright -- Philip Larkin -- Reyner Banham -- James Baldwin -- Gore Vidal -- Jan Morris -- Dan Jacobson -- P.J. Kavanagh -- V.S. Naipaul -- John Updike -- Joan Didion -- Joseph Epstein -- Clive James. (from Winston Churchill in 1940) /
0192141856 9780192141859
90034948
GB90-28772
English essays.
American essays.
Essais anglais.
Essais am�ericains.
Essays
PR1363 / .O9 1991
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xiv]-xviii).
Of truth ; Of revenge ; Of boldness ; Of innovations ; Of masques and triumphs / A chambermaid ; A fair and happy milkmaid / An antiquary ; A goold old man ; A pot-poet / How the distempers of these times should affect wise men / On dreams / Of anger / A degenerate noble / Of charity, of the love of God / Of avarice / "Cahucer" Good manners and good breeding ; A meditation upon a broom-stick / Thoughts in Westminster Abbey ; The Royal Exchange ; Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey ; Sir Roger at Vauxhall / On recollections of childhood / Upon affectation / The levee / The poor and their betters / Dignity and uses of biography ; Conversation ; Debtors' prisons (1) ; Debtors' prisons (2) / Of the dignity or meanness of human nature / On dress ; A little great man ; On national prejudices / On war / Dream children ; from On some of the old actors / On the pleasure of hating ; Brummelliana / Getting up on cold mornings / The knocking at the gat in Macbeth / from Signs of the times / from Lord Clive / On secrecy / Secular knowledge not a principle of action / The conservative / The haunted mind / "Bentham and Coleridge" City of London churches / Autor de mon chapeau / The plumber / Night and moonlight / The philosophy of Christianity / Thomas Carlyle / Heine and the Philistines from Evolution and ethics / Dull government / Talking about our troubles / from Autobiography / On knowing what gives us pleasure / Thoughts of God / Sandro Botticelli / Wasps / Disintroductions / The Ph.D. octopus / from London / Under the early stars / The acorn-gatherer / Aes triplex / "the true critic" Sir George Grove / The censor of plays / A visit to Walt Whitman / William James / Intellectual ambition ; Intuitive morality / Cordova / On the departure of a guest / On being modern-minded / "A clergyman" / The dream / A defence of Penny Dreadfuls ; On sandals and simplicity / Invective / My own centenary / Creighton / The libido for the ugly ; Funeral march / Evening parties / Harriette Wilson ; The death of the moth / Finnegans wake / The greatest Victorian / Insouciance / What there is to see at the zoo / Marie Lloyd / Symmetry and repitition / The necessary enemy / The sterner sex / The colloid and the crystal / On being the Sir Francis Bacon -- Sir Thomas Overbury -- John Earle -- Owen Felltham -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Thomas Fuller -- Samuel Butler -- Jeremy Taylor -- Abraham Cowley -- Jonathan Swift -- Joseph Addison -- Sir Richard Steele -- Lord Chesterfield -- Benjamin Franklin -- Henry Fielding -- Samuel Johnson -- David Hume -- Oliver Goldsmith -- James Boswell -- Charles Lamb -- William Hazlitt -- Leigh Hunt -- Thomas de Quincey -- Thomas Carlyle ; Lord Macaulay -- Sir Henry Taylor -- John Henry Newman -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- John Stuart Mill -- Charles Dickens -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Anthony Trollope -- Henry David Thoreau -- James Anthony Froude -- George Eliot -- Matthew Arnold -- T.H. Huxley -- Walter Bagehot -- Mark Rutherford -- Sir Leslie Stephen -- Samuel Butler -- Mark Twain -- Walter Pater -- W.H. Hudson -- Ambrose Bierce -- William James -- Henry James -- Alice Meynell -- Richard Jefferies -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Oscar Wilde -- George Bernard Shaw -- Joseph Conrad -- James G. Huneker -- John Jay Chapman -- George Santayana -- Arthur Symons -- Hilaire Belloc -- Bertrand Russel -- Sir Max Beerbohm -- Sir Winston Churchill -- G.K. Chesterton -- Sir Desmond McCarthy -- E.M. Forster -- Lytton Strachey -- H.L. Mencken -- Rose Macaulay -- Virginia Woolf -- James Stephens -- G.M. Young -- D.H. Lawrence -- Marianne Moore -- T.S. Eliot -- Sir Lewis Namier -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Rebecca West -- Joseph Wood Krutch -- (from Preface to the Fables) -- (from Coleridge) / (from Heinrich Heine) / (from The critic as artist) / About myself / Our half-Hogarth / The ant-lion / Reflections on Gandhi / Well-informed circles ... and how to move in them / The lost childhood / Adams at ease / A new Westminster / The faces of Buddha / The snout / What if--? : English versus German and French / In search of Nib-Joy / Young hunger / Churchill and Roosevelt To err is human / Bad poets / Thomas Hobbes / The apotheosis of Martin Luther King / The gangster as tragic hero / The Homburg hat / The people's victor / Movies on television / The marquis and the madame / The savage seventh / The crisp at the crossroads / Stranger in the village / Robert Graves and the twelve Caesars / La Paz / A visit from royalty / Is it alas, Yorick? / Columbus and Crusoe / The bankrupt man / At the dam / About face / A blizzard of tiny kisses / E.B. White -- V.S. Pritchett -- Cyril Connolly -- George Orwell -- Evelyn Waugh -- Graham Greene -- Lionel Trilling -- Sir John Betjeman -- Sir William Empson -- Loren Eiseley -- Jacques Barzun -- Maurice Richardson -- M.F.K. Fisher -- Sir Isaiah Berlin -- Lewis Thomas -- Randall Jarrell -- H.R. Trevor-Roper -- Elizabeth Hardwick -- Robert Warshow -- Richard Cobb -- Conor Cruise O'Brien -- Pauline Kael -- D.J. Enright -- Philip Larkin -- Reyner Banham -- James Baldwin -- Gore Vidal -- Jan Morris -- Dan Jacobson -- P.J. Kavanagh -- V.S. Naipaul -- John Updike -- Joan Didion -- Joseph Epstein -- Clive James. (from Winston Churchill in 1940) /
0192141856 9780192141859
90034948
GB90-28772
English essays.
American essays.
Essais anglais.
Essais am�ericains.
Essays
PR1363 / .O9 1991