Visions and magic spells, can you despise, And laugh at witches, ghosts, and prodigies? Going yesterday to...
Historic Articles by Authors
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...
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson “Ne te quaesiveris extra.” “Man is his own star; and the soul...
Coleridge analyzes 'Fortune favors fools,' exploring how luck, skill and human bias intersect in this timeless proverb...
THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH The introduction and acclimatization of the hexameter upon English soil has been...
Explore how reading transformed Robert Louis Stevenson's writing and discover his influential books. Learn why great writers...
Explore Emerson's revolutionary "What is Art" essay that connects artistic creation with nature, spirituality, and universal truths...
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...
