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10 best books like Selected Writings (William Hazlitt): On Grief and Reason: Essays, Selected Writings, Shakespeare, The Second Common Reader, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War, Selected Essays, The Major Works, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness, The Major Works, The Dyer's Hand

On Grief and Reason: Essays
AuthorJoseph Brodsky
ISBN0374525099
On Grief and Reason is the second volume of Joseph Brodsky's essays, and the first to be published since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987. In addition to his Nobel lecture, the volume includes essays on the condition of exile, the nature of history, the art of reading, and the idea of...
Selected Writings
AuthorJosé Martí
ISBN0142437042
José Martí (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Martí lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning...
Shakespeare
AuthorMark Van Doren
ISBN1590171683
This legendary book by an esteemed poet and beloved professor at Columbia University features a series of smart, witty, deeply perceptive essays about each of Shakespeare's plays, together with a further discussion of the poems. Writing with an incomparable knowledge of his subject but without...
The Second Common Reader
AuthorVirginia Woolf
ISBN0156028166
3.5 stars

Last year I came across The Common Reader Vol. I at a Kinokuniya Bookstore in Bangkok and ordered Vol. II immediately. In fact, these famed two volumes have been published in various editions since 1932 and I've tried to buy them for a long time. Enticed by the simple title, I've since...
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
AuthorEdmund Wilson
ISBN0393312569
Patriotic Gore (1962) is the big book of Wilson’s final decade and in the dust jacket photo he looks just the toothless, growling old cuss one meets in “The Critic in Winter,” Updike’s worthwhile review of the late journals. Wilson spent his last summers in a decaying corner of Upstate New York,...
Selected Essays
AuthorDavid Hume
ISBN0192836218
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.

As seen in these...
The Major Works
AuthorSamuel Johnson
ISBN0192840428
Samuel Johnson's literary reputation rests on such a varied output that he defies easy description: poet, critic, lexicographer, travel writer, essayist, editor, and, thanks to his good friend Boswell, the subject of one of the most famous English biographies.

This volume celebrates...
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness
AuthorWilliam Godwin
ISBN0140400303
I've had this one on the shelf for years, but something tells me that, in this day and age, it's an interesting time to finally crack it open. Here's the opening excerpt from the introduction by editor, Dr. Isaac Kramnick:

"Every political philosophy has its prophet and sacred text. For liberalism...
The Major Works
AuthorFrancis Bacon
ISBN0192840819
This authoritative edition brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available - that reveals the essence of his work and thinking.

Francis Bacon held some of the highest public offices in the land...
The Dyer's Hand
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0679724842
In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations—on poetry, art, and the observation...
Where the Stress Falls: Essays
AuthorSusan Sontag
ISBN0099289415
Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from...
Persecution and the Art of Writing
AuthorLeo Strauss
ISBN0226777111
It's easy to understand the influence of Hayek or Milton Friedman, but Leo Strauss is an entirely more perplexing case. What is it about this Spinoza expert and painstaking scholar of medieval philosophy that makes him an intellectual godfather to the modern GOP?

Let's try asking Peter Thiel...
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
AuthorLionel Trilling
ISBN0151511977
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling's essays...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater & Other Writings
AuthorThomas de Quincey
ISBN0192836544
I sometimes seem to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience. —Confessions

. . . I do not believe that any man, having once tasted the...
The Major Works
AuthorThomas Browne
ISBN0140431098
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) was a writer of breathtaking range and learning, whose works demonstrate a warm and humorous view of human nature. Religio Medici is a fascinating, witty and intimate exploration of his views on faith and tolerance, while substantial selections from Pseudodoxia Epidemica...
Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804
AuthorRichard Holmes
ISBN0375705406
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets.

Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed...
The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
AuthorJames Wood
ISBN0312424604
"James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick

Following the collection The Broken Estate--which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation--The Irresponsible Self confirms...
Classical Literary Criticism: Poetics/Ars Poetica/On the Sublime
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0140441557
Aristotle's Poetics has long been recognized as a seminal work of literary criticism. His analysis of tragic drama, epic poetry and stylistic devices such as metaphor, and his famous notion of the cathartic purging of the emotions, have defined a critical terminology for generations of later writers....
Selected Writings
AuthorJohn Ruskin
ISBN0192802623
John Ruskin was the most powerful and influential art critic and social commentator of the Victorian nineteenth century. A true polymath, he wrote about nature, art, architecture, politics, history, myth and much more. All of his work is characterized by a clarity of vision as unsettling and intense...
Stranger Shores: Essays 1986-1999
AuthorJ.M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Stranger Shores opens with 'What is a Classic?' in which Coetzee explores...
How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken
AuthorDaniel Mendelsohn
ISBN0061456438
Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It...
The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays
AuthorSimon Leys
ISBN1863955321
An essential collection of essays from an eminent critic.

Simon Leys’ cultural and political commentary has spanned four decades, with no corner of the arts escaping his sharp eye and acerbic wit. The Hall of Uselessness forms the most complete collection yet of Leys’ fascinating essays,...
Finding a Form
AuthorWilliam H. Gass
ISBN0801484898
William Gass writes about literary language, about history, about the avant-garde, about minimalism's brief vogue, about the use of the present tense in fiction (Is it due to the lack of both a sense of history and a belief in the future?), about biography as a form, about exile - spiritual and geographical...
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