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A Defence of Poetry
According to one mode of regarding those two classes of mental action, which are called reason an...
On the Symposium, or Preface to the Banquet of Plato
A FRAGMENT The dialogue entitled The Banquet was selected by the translator as the most beautifu...
Essay on the Literature, the Arts, and the Manners of the Athenians
A FRAGMENT The period which intervened between the birth of Pericles and the death of Aristotle,...
Speculations on Morals
I.—PLAN OF A TREATISE ON MORALS That great science which regards nature and the operations of th...
Speculations on Metaphysics
I—THE MIND It is an axiom in mental philosophy, that we can think of nothing which we have not p...
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A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
The Celtic Twilight
Best known for his poetry, William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was also a dedicated exponent of Iris...
The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide composed by William Strunk Jr. i...
Essays, Moral and Political (1741-2)
1741 Essays, Moral and Political, the first collection, containing 15 essays. 1742 Essays, Moral...
Four Dissertations
Four Dissertations is a collection of four essays by the Scottish enlightenment philosopher David...
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. American literary critic Harold...
W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer ...
Sir William Jones
A renowned Enlightenment polymath, Sir William Jones (1746–94) was a lawyer, translator and poet ...
William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary c...
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, sho...