Preface
Essayists on the Essay: Toward a Collective Poetics

Montaigne, Michel de. “Essaying Myself”
Bacon, Francis. “Of Essays and Aphorisms”
Cornwallis, William. “Of Essays”
Addison, Joseph. “On the Essay and Methodical Discourse”
Johnson, Samuel. “From a Careless Glance to a Finished Essay”
Lamb, Charles. “The Essayist and the Essay”
Hazlitt, William. “On the Periodical Essayists”
Smith, Alexander. “On the Writing of Essays”
Pater, Walter “The Essay and the Platonic Dialogue”
Repplier, Agnes. “The Passing of the Essay”
Wells, H. G. “The Writing of Essays”
Howells, William Dean. “The Old-Fashioned Essay”
Ortega y Gasset, Jose. “Science without Explicit Proof”
Benson, Arthur Christopher. “The Art of the Essayist”
Woolf, Virginia. “The Modern Essay”
Chesterton, G.K. “The Essay that Is Really an Essay”
Belloc, Hillaire.“An Essay upon Essays upon Essays”
Musil, Robert. “Essayism”
Gerould, Katherine Fullerton. “An Essay on Essays”
Williams, William Carlos. “An Essay on Virginia”
Murdoch, Walter. “The Essay”
Anderson-Imbert, Enrique. “In Defense of the Essay”
Bense, Max. “On the Essay and Its Prose”
Picon-Salas, Mariano. “The Revolution of the Essay”
Arciniegas, German. “Our American Essay”
Adorno, Theodor. “The Essay as Form”
Huxley, Aldous. “Varieties of the Essay”
Hamburger, Michael. “An Essay on the Essay”
Ouellette, Fernand. “Ramblings on the Essay”
Diaz-Plaja, Guillermo. “The Limits of the Essay”
White, E.B. “The Essayist and the Essay”
Hoagland, Edward. “What I Think, What I Am”
Belleau, Andre. “Little Essayistic”
Lopate, Philip. “The Essay Lives—In Disguise”
Gass, William. “The Essay and the Article”
Hardwick, Elizabeth. “Its Only Defense: Intelligence and Sparkle”
Sanders, Scott Russell. “The Singular First Person”
Zaid, Gabriel. “Alfonso Reyes’ Wheelbarrow”
Early, Gerald. “The Black Essayist"
Starobinski, Jean. “Can the Essay Be Defined?”
Ozick, Cynthia. “She: Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body”
Mairs, Nancy. “Essaying the Feminine: From Montaigne to Kristeva”
Gornick, Vivian. “The Essayist’s Persona”
D’Agata, John. “The Lyric Essay”
Graham, Paul. “Trying”
Monson, Ander. “Essay as Simulated Mind”
Smith, Zadie. “On the Rise of the Essay”

Essayists on the Essay: A Bibliography and Thematic Guide