Essayist

An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. The essay is (usually) shorter and (mostly) more tentative than a formal finished monograph or treatise.

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The essay was a favourite form of the man of letters, allowing a display of understated reading and culture. In recent years it has also been used with greater acuity, and more definite political intent.

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A representative list of famous essayists:

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• Matthew Arnold
• Francis Bacon
• Hilaire Belloc
• William Cobbett
• Thomas de Quincey
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• William Hazlitt
• Hugh Hood
• Leigh Hunt
• Samuel Johnson
• Charles Lamb
• Michel de Montaigne
• Joyce Carol Oates
• George Orwell
• Katherine Ann Porter
• Bertrand Russell
• John Ralston Saul
• Susan Sontag
• Lytton Strachey
• Voltaire
• Rebecca West
• E. B. White
• Virginia Woolf
• Richard Wagner
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Author: The word author has several meanings:...

Essay: :For the town in France, see Essay, Orne....

Monograph: A monograph is a scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects. It is a one-time publication that is complete in itself. A more specific definition is: a lengthy work on a particular subject or person, detailed in treatment and often containing bibliographies....




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James Russell Lowell American Poet Essayist and Diplomat