Montaigne & Bacon: The fathers of the essay

The two founders of the form — Montaigne’s wandering self-inquiry and Bacon’s polished worldly wisdom — where the essay began.

In this collection

• Recollections of a Gifted Woman
• And They Are Dumb
• The Poet's Delay
• Reflections on the Operation of the Present System of Education, 1853
• The Nameless Man
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
• Limericks and Counsels of Perfection
• Overtasked
• Inscriptions for a Friend's House (Greetings and Inscriptions)
• Evarra and his Gods
• Meeting of my Departed Mother and Husband
• A Possibility
• A Song by Uncle Sidney
• To Moina
• The Burial of my Past Self
• Ditty
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