Does Fortune Favor Fools? by Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Does Fortune favor fools? Or how do you explain...
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.
THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH The introduction and acclimatization of the hexameter upon English soil has been...
The Editor has somewhat insidiously laid a trap for his correspondents, the question put appearing at first...
Explore Emerson's revolutionary "What is Art" essay that connects artistic creation with nature, spirituality, and universal truths...
TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824. In nobil sangue vita umile e queta, Ed...
Charles Dickens, in a note now lying before me, alluding to an examination I once made of...
What I Think of Leo Tolstoy by William Dean Howells I come now, though not quite in...
I offer no apology for entreating the attention of the readers of The Daily News to an...
Discover Willa Cather’s 1896 take on Walt Whitman—his style, vitality, and influence on American literature. Read this...
IN DEFENSE OF BOOKS by John Milton I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment...
Discover the true Edgar Allan Poe through N.P. Willis's rare 1849 defense, challenging myths about America's troubled...
What I Think of These Three Writers by Edgar Allen Poe OF WILLIS, BRYANT, HALLECK, AND MACAULAY...
The first person who compared painting and poetry with one another was a man of refined feeling,...
POETRY AND NATIONALITY[1] by James Russell Lowell This article first appeared in the North American Review in...
Introduction to “What Life Means to Me” by Jack London This page was updated March 29, 2025....
