Readings

See syllabus for order and dates

Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

Of Atheism

Of Studies

Of Truth

Of Unity in Religion

Of Vicissitude of Things

Brian Doyle (1956– )

Interview w/ PM (PDF)

Interview w/ Engl 317R, 10/6/04 (RTF)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

Self-Reliance (off site)

Ian Frazier (1951– )

A Lovely Sort of Lower Purpose (off site)

Invaders (off site)

Eduardo Galeano (1940– )

Ventanas, Tejidos, Abrazos (PDF)

William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth

On the Ignorance of the Learned

My First Acquaintance with Poets

On the Pleasure of Hating

Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading

Grace before Meat

Imperfect Sympathies

New Year's Eve

Blaise Pascal (1623–62)

Thoughts on Mind and on Style from Pensees (off site)

The Fundamentals of the Christian Religion from Pensees

Michel de Montaigne (1533–92)

Of Experience

Of the Inconstancy of Our Actions

Of Pedantry

Of Prayers

Of Repentance

George Orwell (1903–50)

A Hanging

Marrakech

Such, Such Were the Joys

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

The Death of the Moth

Montaigne

Street Haunting