Shakespeare’s Attitude Toward the Working Classes by Ernest Crosby “Shakespeare was of us,” cries Browning, in his...
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 Function of the Poet by James Russell Lowell This was the concluding lecture in the course...
The Bee by Mark Twain It was Maeterlinck who introduced me to the bee. I mean, in...
On Literature, Arts and Manners of Athenians by Percy Bysshe Shelley The period which intervened between the...
Of Ambition by Francis Bacon AMBITION is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men active,...
Printing Office-Old Brooklyn Printing by Walt Whitman After about two years went to work in a weekly...
After all, What is Poetry by John Raymond Howard Considering the immense volume of poetical writing produced,...
On Siegfried Sassoon by Robert Nichols Sassoon the Man: In appearance he is tall, big-boned, loosely built. He...
Difficulty of Analysis The Human Mind by Percy Bysshe Shelley If it were possible that a person...
On The Physiology of Laughter by Herbert Spencer Why do we smile when a child puts on...
William Blake and the Imagination by W. B. Yeats There have been men who loved the future...
A College Magazine by Robert Louis Stevenson I All through my boyhood and youth, I was known...
Dear Smith,— You inform me that you desire to be a journalist, and you are kind enough...
Art and the Handicraftsman by Oscar Wilde PEOPLE often talk as if there was an opposition between...
What is ‘Popular Poetry’? by W. B. Yeats I think it was a Young Ireland Society that...
