ON THE ART OF POETRY By Aristotle II. The objects the imitator represents are actions, with agents...
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.
Origin and Progress of Printing by Frederick Saunders (1839) (I thought it would be interesting to take...
An address delivered in 1877, and a review of it twenty-nine years later. The original speech...
Check back each day, over time we will publish the complete work of Aristotle on the Art...
The pretty fable by which the Duchess of Orleans illustrates the character of her son, the regent,...
No thornier theme could well be suggested than I was once invited to consider by an...
In the year 1716, or about that period, a boy used to be seen in the streets...
There was a painless stage of incubation that lasted twenty-five years, and then it broke out on...
MURDER,CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS. by Thomas de Quincey DOCTOR NORTH: You are a liberal...
Life and Writing by Arthur Christopher Benson There is a tendency, not by any means among the...
THE WHAT AND THE HOW IN ART by William Dean Howells One of the things always enforcing...
A MODEST PROPOSAL Dr. Jonathan Swift For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being...
MR. KIPLING’S STORIES The wind bloweth where it listeth. But the wind of literary inspiration has rarely...
LIFE by Percy Bysshe Shelley Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are...
A JULY AFTER-NOON BY THE POND The fervent heat, but so much more endurable in this pure...
