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• Essay — An essay is usually a short piece of writing. It is often written from an author s personal point of view. Essays can be literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of… …   Wikipedia

• English literature — The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan… …   Wikipedia

• English Literature — • Latin, French, Italian, Greek, and Spanish literatures are a few of the influences Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. English Literature     English Literature      …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Essay of Dramatick Poesie — by John Dryden was published in 1668. It was probably written during the plague year of 1666. Dryden takes up the subject that Philip Sidney had set forth in his Defence of Poesie (1580) and attempts to justify drama as a legitimate artform.The… …   Wikipedia

• Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life — (1765) is an educational treatise by the eighteenth century British polymath Joseph Priestley. [Priestley, Joseph. Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life . London: Printed for C. Henderson under the Royal Exchange; T.… …   Wikipedia

• English-only movement — English only movement, also known as Official English movement, refers to a political movement for the use only of the English language in official government operations through the establishing of English as the only official language in the… …   Wikipedia

• Essay on the First Principles of Government — (1768) is an early work of modern liberal political theory by eighteenth century British polymath Joseph Priestley.Genesis of workPriestley s friends urged him to publish a work on the injustices borne by religious Dissenters because of the Test… …   Wikipedia

• English literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …   Universalium

• English Hours — Infobox Book | name = English Hours image caption = First US edition author = Henry James country = United Kingdom, United States language = English genre = Travel writing publisher = William Heinemann, LondonHoughton, Mifflin and Company, Boston …   Wikipedia

• essay — [15] Essay and assay [14] are fundamentally the same word, and only began to diverge in the 15th century. Both come via Old French assaier from Vulgar Latin *exagiāre ‘weigh out’, a verb derived from late Latin exagium ‘weighing’; this in turn… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• essay — [15] Essay and assay [14] are fundamentally the same word, and only began to diverge in the 15th century. Both come via Old French assaier from Vulgar Latin *exagiāre ‘weigh out’, a verb derived from late Latin exagium ‘weighing’; this in turn… …   Word origins