POEMS IN PROSE by Oscar Wilde THE ARTIST ONE evening there came into his soul the desire...
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.
Let brevity despatch the rapid thought. I have somewhere read of an eminent person who used in...
One has the leisure of July for perceiving all the differences of the green of leaves. It...
Most of us, mere men that we are, find ourselves caught in some entanglement of our...
Henry James is Awesome! by Willa Cather Their mania for careless and hasty work is not...
Visions and magic spells, can you despise, And laugh at witches, ghosts, and prodigies? Going yesterday to...
In the present state of society, it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search...
NEW YORK As we drew near to New York I was at first amused, and then somewhat...
Of Wisdom For A Man’s Self by Francis Bacon AN ANT is a wise creature for itself,...
TO M. O. MENSHIKOV. YALTA, January 28, 1900. … I can’t make out what Tolstoy’s illness is....
A Review of Hamlet by WILLIAM HAZLITT It is the one of Shakespeare’s plays that we think...
Certainly now in his old age Mr. Howells is selecting queer titles for his books. A while...
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson “Ne te quaesiveris extra.” “Man is his own star; and the soul...
Emerson’s was an Asiatic mind, drawing its sustenance partly from the hard soil of our New England,...
William Shakespeare’s Influence by William Dean Howells The establishment of our paper in the village where there...
