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By G. Douglas Atkins

Approaches abound to aid us beneficially, enjoyably learn fiction, poetry, and drama. right here, for the 1st time, is a e-book that goals to do an analogous for the essay. G. Douglas Atkins plays sustained readings of greater than twenty-five significant essays, explaining how we will have fun with and comprehend what this presently resurgent literary shape unearths concerning the “art of living.”

Atkins’s readings disguise a large spectrum of writers within the English language--and his readings are themselves essays, gracefully written, engaged, and interesting. Atkins begins with the earliest British practitioners of the shape, together with Francis Bacon, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, and Samuel Johnson. Transcendentalist writers Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are integrated, as are works by means of american citizens James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and E. B. White. Atkins additionally presents readings of a few modern essayists, between them Annie Dillard, Scott Russell Sanders, and Cynthia Ozick.

Many of the readings are of essays that Atkins has used effectively within the school room, with undergraduate and graduate scholars, for a few years. In his advent Atkins deals functional recommendation at the particular calls for essays make and the original possibilities they provide, particularly for faculty classes. The ebook ends with a notice at the writing of essays, furthering the author’s rivalry that studying shouldn't be separated from writing.

Reading Essays maintains within the culture of such definitive texts as figuring out Poetry and knowing Fiction. all through, Atkins finds the enjoyment, pride, grace, freedom, and knowledge of “the wonderful essay.”

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