“Everybody is forever saying that the essay is dead. This is always said in essays.”
"Funny Things to Think About and Eat" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E0D7123BF937A35754C0A964948260&scp=50&sq=&st=nyt, The New York Times (4 July 1982)
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American critic, writer, and commentator 1939–2008Related quotes
“These two essays probably will essentially be able to interest only theologians.”
Preface
1840s, Two Ethical-Religious Minor Essays (1849)
“Clare's essay was itself an attempt at popularity through essayistic journalism.”
Clare's 'Popularity in Authorship (1824)
Source: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 6, The Additive Style, p. 62
“Woman's nakedness is wiser than the teachings of the philosophers. [the title of his essay]”
Quote in Max Ernst, Gonthier-Seghers, Paris, 1959; as cited in Max Ernst sculpture, Museo d'arte contemporanea. Edizioni Charta, Milano, 1996, p. 37
1951 - 1976
“Of seeming arms to make a short essay,
Then hasten to be drunk — the business of the day.”
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 407–408.
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast. (Original to Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man”
1734)
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens
“The essay was impelled by Clare's anxiety that his poems were slipping out if fashion.”
Clare's 'Popularity in Authorship (1824)