The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American values. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is a monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith.
The Glorious American Essay
The Glorious American Essay
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The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American values. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is a monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays from Cotton Mather and Benjamin
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