The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
by Phillip Lopate

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Author: Phillip Lopate
Edition: Paperback
Published: 1995-01-15
ISBN: 038542339X
Number of pages: 777
Publisher: Anchor

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As a new writer interested in writing personal essays, Philip Lopate's collection is essential for understanding the history of essays and how essays have evolved to date.

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For more than four hundred years, the personal??essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant??of all literary forms. Distinguished from the??detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational??tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward??candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay??seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities,??fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and??disappointment, the pleasures of solitude,??reading, taking a walk -- to offer insight into the??human condition and the great social and political??issues of the day. The Art of the Personal Essay is??the first anthology to celebrate this fertile??genre. By presenting more than seventy-five personal??essays, including influential forerunners from??ancient Greece, Rome, and the Far East,??masterpieces from the dawn of the personal essay in the??sixteenth century, and a wealth of the finest??personal essays from the last four centuries, editor??Phillip Lopate, himself an acclaimed essayist,??displays the tradition of the personal essay in all??its historical grandeur, depth, and??diversity.

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