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ESSAYIST ESSAY - LoveToKnow Article on ESSAYIST ESSAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | As a form of literature, the essay is a composition of moderate length, usually in prose, which deals in an easy, cursory way with the external conditions of a subject, and, in strictness, with that subject, only as it affects the writer. |
 | | Dr Johnson, himself an eminent essayist, defines an essay as an irregular, undigested piece ; the irregularity may perhaps be admitted, but want of thought, that is to say lack of proper mental digestion, is certainly not characteristic of a fine example. |
 | | The peculiarity of Lambs style as an essayist was that he threw off the Addisonian and still more the Johnsonian tradition, which had become a burden that crushed the life out of each conventional essay, and that he boldly went back to the rich verbiage and brilliant imagery of the seventeenth century for his inspiration. |
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