| We hug the earth,—how rarely we mount! Methinks we might elevate ourselves a little more. We might climb a tree, at least. |
| —Walking |
| Henry David Thoreau |
Harvard Classics, Vol. 28
Essays
English and American
The dozen nineteenth-century authors anthologized in this volume include the great English prose artists Arnold and Ruskin and the American cultural heroes Thoreau and Lowell. Their subjects range from personal biographies on Milton, Swift and Lincoln to topical musings on education, philosophy and literature.
Contents
NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
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- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Introductory Note
- Jonathan Swift
- John Henry Newman
- Introductory Note
- The Idea of a University
- I. What Is a University?
- II. Site of a University
- III. University Life at Athens
- Matthew Arnold
- Introductory Note
- The Study of Poetry
- John Ruskin
- Introductory Note
- Sesame and Lilies
- Lecture I.—Sesame: Of Kings’ Treasuries
- Lecture II.—Lilies: Of Queens’ Gardens
- Walter Bagehot
- Introductory Note
- John Milton (1859)
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Introductory Note
- Science and Culture
- Edward Augustus Freeman
- Introductory Note
- Race and Language
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Introductory Note
- Truth of Intercourse
- Samuel Pepys
- William Ellery Channing
- Introductory Note
- On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes
- Introductory Remarks
- Lecture I
- Lecture II
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Introductory Note
- The Poetic Principle
- Henry David Thoreau
- Introductory Note
- Walking [1862]
- James Russell Lowell
- Introductory Note
- Abraham Lincoln, 1864–1865
- Democracy