Essays

You probably have not read a comprehensive article on descriptive essay topics, this is the time. Assignments and descriptive essays are challenges every pupil faces during the learning duration. Descriptive essays are types of written assignments that deal with impressions, memories, imaginable situations, feelings, psychological...

The Poetic Principle by Edgar Allan Poe The Harvard Classics, 1909-14.   The Poetic Principle In speaking of the Poetic Principle, I have no design to be either thorough or profound. While discussing, very much at random, the essentiality of what we call Poetry, my principal purpose will be...

Old English Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe. [su_divider]   Old English Poetry It should not be doubted that at least one-third of the affection with which we regard the elder poets of Great Britain should be-attributed to what is, in itself, a thing apart from poetry-we mean to the...

King Pest by Edgar Allan Poe. [su_divider] King Pest The gods do bear and will allow in kings The things which they abhor in rascal routes. Buckhurst's Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex. ABOUT twelve o'clock, one night in the month of October, and during the chivalrous reign of the third...

A Predicament by Edgar Allan Poe, 1842.   A Predicament IT was a quiet and still afternoon when I strolled forth in the goodly city of Edina. The confusion and bustle in the streets were terrible. Men were talking. Women were screaming. Children were choking. Pigs were whistling....

United Division was written in 1888 by Henry Lawson [su_divider]   United Division It cannot be denied that these colonies are bitterly jealous of each other’s position in the esteem of the English upper crust, and that this jealousy has helped to make the Australians such contemptible toadies is...

A Neglected History by Henry Lawson [su_divider]   A Neglected History We must admit that the Centennial celebrations in Sydney were not wholly useless. The glorious occasion called forth from every daily, weekly and monthly periodical, every advertising medium, twopenny calendar, and centennial keepsake, a more or less complete...

Indian Fighters by William Dean Howells. [su_divider]   Indian Fighters   In the long war with the Indians, the great battles were nearly all fought within the region that afterwards became our state, and the smaller battles went on there pretty constantly. The first force on the scale of an...

Bread and the Newspaper by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1914. [su_divider]   Bread and the Newspaper   THIS is the new version of the Panem et Circenses of the Roman populace. It is our ultimatum, as that was theirs. They must have something to eat, and the circus-shows to look at....