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In some cases, downplaying the ethos can be done while emphasizing pathos, for example as William Jennings Bryan did in his Cross of Gold speech: I would be presumptuous, indeed, to present myself against the distinguished gentlemen to whom you have listened if this were but a measuring of ability; but this is not a contest among persons.
Addressing this poem to Viscount Cobham, Pope considers the knowledge and personality of various people, discussing the difficulty in reading the character of men. He visited Cobham’s house at Stowe in the summer of 1733, shortly after its owner had been dismissed by Walpole for writing a protest about Government policy.
The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays is a collection of essays and lectures by W. H. Auden, published in 1962 in the US by Random House and in the UK the following year by Faber & Faber. The book contains a selection of essays, reviews, and collections of aphorisms and notes written by Auden from the early 1950s to 1962.
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth Brooks. It is considered a seminal text [ 1 ] in the New Critical school of literary criticism . The title contains an allusion to the fourth stanza of John Donne 's poem, " The Canonization ", which is the primary subject of the first chapter of ...
Generally, the essay introduces three of Poe's theories regarding literature. The author recounts this idealized process by which he says he wrote his most famous poem, "The Raven", to illustrate the theory, which is in deliberate contrast to the "spontaneous creation" explanation put forth, for example, by Coleridge as an explanation for his poem Kubla Khan.
Katha Pollitt (born October 14, 1949) is an American poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry. Her writing focuses on political and social issues from a left-leaning perspective, including abortion, racism, welfare reform, feminism, and poverty.
Just Us: An American Conversation is a 2020 book and anthology of essays, poems, and personal anecdotes written by American author and poet Claudia Rankine.An "arrangement of essays, poems, and images [which] includes the voices and rebuttals of others", [1] it describes and outlines an ideal response to forms of racism in contemporary settings. [1]
The Rumpus is an online literary magazine founded by Stephen Elliott, and launched on January 20, 2009. [1] The site features interviews, book reviews, essays, comics, and critiques of creative culture as well as original fiction and poetry. [2]