English Essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay: Part 27 Harvard Classics

Contents: The Defense of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney. On Shakespeare; On Bacon by Ben Jonson. Of Agriculture by Abraham Cowley. The Vision of Mirza; Westminster Abbey by Joseph Addison. The Spectator Club by Sir Richard Steele. Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation; A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding; A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet; On the Death of Esther Johnson (Stella) by Jonathan Swift. The Shortest Way With the Dissenters; The Education of Women by Daniel Defoe. Life of Addison by Samuel Johnson. Of the Standard of Taste by David Hume. Fallacies of Anti-reformers by Sydney Smith. On Posey or Art by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen by William Hazlitt. Deaths of Little Children; On the Realities of Imagination by Leigh Hunt. On the Tragedies of Shakespeare by Charles Lamb. Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow by Thomas De Quincey. A Defense of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Machiavelli by Thomas Babington Macaulay.