When I Knew Stephen Crane by Willa Cather It was, I think, in the spring of ’94...
Classic Articles on Writing
Classic articles on writing art some of the most interesting and telling works by past authors. Here you will find articles from the past by authors that range from the famous to the obscure.
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau I heartily accept the motto,—”That government...
Andrew Lang Letter To Jane Austen After Her Death by Andrew Lang Madam,—If to the enjoyments of...
PLYMOUTH ROCK AND THE PILGRIMS by Mark Twain ADDRESS AT THE FIRST ANNUAL DINNER, N. E. ...
Experience by Ralph Waldo Emerson WHERE do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do...
IT seems that there is a disposition in certain minds to associate lycanthropy with the doctrine of...
by Andrew Lang Sir,—Your English readers, better acquainted with your poems and romances than with your criticisms,...
The centre of our studies, the goal of our thoughts, the point to which all paths lead...
It would be an ill turn for an essay-writer to destroy Walt Whitman,—for he was discovered by...
NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT by Henry D. Thoreau Chancing to take a memorable walk by moonlight some years...
AN AUTUMN EFFECT by Robert Louis Stevenson (1875) A country rapidly passed through under favourable auspices may...
May 6, ’82.—We stand by Emerson’s new-made grave without sadness—indeed a solemn joy and faith, almost hauteur—our...
THE UNKNOWN BRAIN by Elliott O’Donnell Whether all that constitutes man’s spiritual nature, that is to say,...
I SHOULD very much like to deliver a dissertation on the American army and the possibilities of...
Poetry (I am clear) is eligible of something far more ripen’d and ample, our lands and pending...
