Essay
:For the town in France, see Essay, Orne.
Form and content
Essays are usually brief works in prose, but works in verse are sometimes dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711) and An Essay on Man (1733-1734) and many voluminous works refer to themselves as essays (e.g. John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)).
Related Topics:
Alexander Pope - John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Virtually anything may be the subject of an essay. Topics may include actual happenings, issues of human life, morality, ethics, religion and many others. An essay is, by definition, a work of non-fiction, and is often expository.
Related Topics:
Morality - Ethics - Religion
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~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Form and content |
| ► | The essay as literary genre |
| ► | The essay as a pedagogical tool |
| ► | Non-literary essays |
| ► | Related terms |
| ► | Literature |
| ► | External links |
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