Harvard Classics Volume 27 - English Essays: Sidney To Macaulay

Contents: 1. The Defense Of Poesy, by Sir Philip Sidney 2. On Shakespeare and On Bacon, by Ben Jonson 3. Of Agriculture, by Abraham Cowley 4. The Vision Of Mirza and Westminster Abbey, by Joseph Addison 5. The Spectator Club, by Sir Richard Steele 6. Hints Towards An Essay On Conversation, A Treatise On Good Manners And Good Breeding, A Letter Of Advice To A Young Poet and On The Death Of Esther Johnson (Stella), by Jonathan Swift 7. The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters and The Education Of Women, by Daniel Defoe 8. Life Of Addison, by Samuel Johnson 9. Of The Standard Of Taste, by David Hume 10. Fallacies Of Anti-Reformers, by Sydney Smith 11. On Poesy Or Art, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 12. Of Persons One Would Wish To Have Seen, by William Hazlitt 13. Deaths Of Little Children and On The Realities Of Imagination, by Leigh Hunt 14. On The Tragedies Of Shakespeare, by Charles Lamb 15. Levana And Our Ladies Of Sorrow, by Thomas De Quincey 16. A Defence Of Poetry, by Percy Bysshe Shelley 17. Machiavelli, by Thomas Babington Macaulay Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)