English essays
Here are entered collections of essays by several authors.
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Essayists Past and Present: A Selection of English Essays (London: H. Jenkins Ltd., 1925), ed. by J. B. Priestley, contrib. by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, William Makepeace Thackeray, Alexander Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson, E. V. Lucas, Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, and Robert Lynd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)- Essays, English and American (Harvard Classics v28), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Henry Huxley, Edward A. Freeman, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ellery Channing, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and James Russell Lowell
- Prose Masterpieces From Modern Essayists: Froude, Freeman, Gladstone, Newman, Leslie Stephen (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1891), contrib. by James Anthony Froude, Edward A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, John Henry Newman, and Leslie Stephen (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811), ed. by John Walker
- The Coverley Papers from the 'Spectator', by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Eustace Budgell, ed. by O. M. Myers (Gutenberg text)
- Modern Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., c1921), ed. by Christopher Morley, contrib. by John Albert Macy, William Allen White, Rupert Brooke, Don Marquis, David W. Bone, William McFee, Joyce Kilmer, Joseph Conrad, A. P. Herbert, Oscar W. Firkins, Hilaire Belloc, William Osler, Stephen Leacock, Harry Morgan Ayres, Thomas Burke, A. A. Milne, Max Beerbohm, Stuart Pratt Sherman, H. M. Tomlinson, Louise Imogen Guiney, Marian Storm, George Santayana, Simeon Strunsky, George Saintsbury, Bertrand Russell, Philip Guedalla, Robert Palfrey Utter, Logan Pearsall Smith, James Branch Cabell, Robert Cortes Holliday, Harry Esty Dounce, and Robert Cortes Holliday
- Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing (New York: The Century Co., 1922), ed. by Frederick Houk Law
- Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing (New York: The Century Co., c1922), ed. by Frederick Houk Law (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Modern Essays and Stories: A Book to Awaken Appreciation of Modern Prose, and to Develop Ability and Originality in Writing (New York: The Century Co., 1923), ed. by Frederick Houk Law (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century, With Introduction and Notes (New York et al.: C. Scribner's Sons, c1921), ed. by Raymond Macdonald Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
- English Critical Essays (Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) (London: Oxford University Press, c1922), ed. by Edmund D. Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Essays on I. Moral Sentiments; II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysics; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses (London: A. Murray and Co., 1872), by Adam Smith, ed. by James Hutton and Joseph Black
- The Spectator: A New Edition, Reproducing the Original Text Both As First Issued and As Corrected by its Authors (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1891), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, ed. by Henry Morley
- The Tatler (reprinted edition of the serial founded in 1709, in 4 volumes; New York: Hadley and Mathews, 1899), by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, ed. by George Atherton Aitken (searchable DjVu at Rutgers)
- Critical Essays of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1725 (1915), ed. by W. H. Durham (page images at HathiTrust)
- Essays on Philosophical Subjects, by the Late Adam Smith, LL.D., Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, &c., &c.; To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1795), by Adam Smith, ed. by James Hutton and Joseph Black, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Champion (London, 1739-1740s) (partial serial archives)
- Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1884), by Francis Bacon, contrib. by A. Spiers and Basil Montagu (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall (1625 edition), by Francis Bacon (HTML at Renascence Editions)
- The Essays, by Francis Bacon (HTML at esp.org)
- Essays, Civil and Moral, by Francis Bacon (HTML at Bartleby)
- Essays, Civil and Moral, and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici (Harvard Classics v3; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Francis Bacon, John Milton, and Thomas Browne
- The Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral, and Wisdom of the Ancients (London: W. Pickering, 1852), by Francis Bacon, ed. by Basil Montagu (page images at Google)
- Elizabethan Critical Essays (2 volumes; Oxford University Press reprint, c1904), ed. by G. Gregory Smith
- The Seventeenth-Century English Essay (University of Iowa Humanistic Studies v3 #3; ca. 1926), by Elbert N. S. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: English literature- Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
- Yale Studies in English (partial serial archives)
- At the Sign of the Hobby Horse (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910), by Elizabeth Bisland (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century (1891), ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
- Essays in Literature and History (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1906), by James Anthony Froude, contrib. by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
- Et Cetera: A Collector's Scrap-Book (Chicago: P. Covici, 1924), ed. by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)
- Heart Throbs, in Prose and Verse, Dear to the American People (2 volumes; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1905-1911), ed. by Joe Mitchell Chapple
- The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America, ed. by George Pope Morris and Nathaniel Parker Willis (page images at MOA)
- This England: An Anthology From Her Writers (London et al.: Oxford University Press, 1915), ed. by Edward Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books (10 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805-1809), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
- Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
- Restituta: or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived (4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814-1816), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
- World's Renowned Authors, and Their Grand Masterpieces of Poetry and Prose (Kansas City, MO: Topeka Book Co., 1902), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Land of My Fathers: A Welsh Gift Book (published on behalf of the National Fund for Welsh Troops; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915), ed. by William Lewis Jones
- The Saga Library: Done into English Out of the Icelandic (6 volumes; London: B. Quaritch, 1891-1905), ed. by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon, contrib. by Snorri Sturluson
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
- all volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
- Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (c2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard (PDF at Toronto)
- Eighteenth Century Literature (New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1929), ed. by Richard Foster Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
- The New Foundling Hospital for Wit: Being a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, Not in Any Other Collection; With Several Pieces Never Before Published (new edition, 6 volumes; London: J. Debrett, 1786), ed. by John Almon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Essays on Various Subjects, by the Author of Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, 1772), by Catherine Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Foundling Hospital for Wit (6 volumes originally published 1743-1749), ed. by Charles Hanbury-Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
- Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 (c2006), ed. by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, and Chris Koenig-Woodyard (PDF at Toronto)
- Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians, Hopkins, Pater and Wilde (Brno: Masaryk University, 2006), by Michael Matthew Kaylor (PDF with commentary at mmkaylor.com)
- The Victoria Regia: A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose (London: Emily Faithfull, 1861), ed. by Adelaide Anne Procter (multiple formats at archive.org)
- New Paths: Verse, Prose, Pictures, 1917-1918, ed. by Cyril W. Beaumont and Michael Sadleir, illust. by Anne Estelle Rice (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Second Problems Book: Prizes and Proximes from the Westminster Gazette, 1908-1909 (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1909), ed. by Naomi Royde-Smith, contrib. by Lytton Strachey, illust. by F. Carruthers Gould
- The Westminster Problems Book: Prose and Verse (London: Methuen and Co., c1908), ed. by Naomi Royde-Smith
- The Idler, ed. by Robert Barr, Jerome K. Jerome, Arthur Lawrence, and Sidney Herbert Sime (full serial archives)
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