Readings

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Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

Of Truth

Of Studies

Of Unity in Religion

Of Vicissitude of Things

Brian Doyle (1956– )

Interview w/ PM (PDF)

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

Ian Frazier (1951– )

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

Imperfect Sympathies

New Year's Eve

Michel de Montaigne (1533–92)

Of the Inconstancy of Our Actions

Of Pedantry

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

E. B. White (1899–1995)

The World of Tomorrow