To Mrs. Grover Cleveland, in Washington: Hartford, Nov. 6, 1887. My Dear Madam,—I do not know how...
Historic Articles by Authors
Rules of Tragic Plot by Aristotle In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper...
The Shrinkage of the Planet What a tremendous affair it was, the world of Homer, with its...
An English Critic on Mark Twain An English Critic on Mark Twain: Perhaps the most successful flights of...
Shakespeare’s Attitude Toward the Working Classes by Ernest Crosby “Shakespeare was of us,” cries Browning, in his...
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...
