Harvard Classics Volume 28 : Essays: English And American

Contents:

1. Jonathan Swift, by William Makepeace Thackeray

2. The Idea Of A University, by John Henry Newman

3. The Study Of Poetry, by Matthew Arnold

4. Sesame And Lilies, by John Ruskin

5. John Milton, by Walter Bagehot

6. Science And Culture, by Thomas Henry Huxley

7. Race And Language, by Edward Augustus Freeman

8. Truth Of Intercourse And Samuel Pepys, by Robert Louis Stevenson

9. On The Elevation Of The Laboring Classes, by William Ellery Channing

10. The Poetic Principle, by Edgar Allan Poe

11. Walking, by Henry David Thoreau

12. Abraham Lincoln And Democracy, by James Russell Lowell

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