Textpedia

A free library of enduring ideas.

All works →
The Philosophy of Style
The Idea of a University
The Four Ages of Poetry
Novum Organum
The Defence of Poesy
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles Darwin1809–1882
David Hume1711–1776
Francis Bacon1561–1626
Herbert Spencer1820–1903
Herman Melville1819–1891
John Dryden1631–1700
Matthew Arnold1822–1888
Robert Southey1774–1843
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881
Thucydidesc.  460–c.  400 BC
W. B. Yeats1865–1939
Walt Whitman1819–1892
William Hazlitt1778–1830
William James1842–1910
American Pragmatism

Belief, truth and the practical consequences of ideas in American philosophy.

The American Renaissance

Nineteenth-century American literature exploring nature, individuality and society.

Early Modern Philosophy

Inquiries into reason, experience, knowledge and human nature in early modern thought.

East and West

Literature, history and thought across Eastern and Western traditions.

The Romantic Critics

Poetry, drama and the imagination in the criticism of the Romantic era.

Victorian Sages

Victorian reflections on society, culture and the moral questions of a changing world.