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...late wife. Rich said "she thought, without detracting an inch from H.D.T., that it must be a good deal more difficult to be E.B. White in the 20th century than Henry Thoreau in the 19th ... How's this? Is White a troubled or oppressed American? Famous as a stylist, essayist, and author of children's books. White has long been identified with the The New Yorker. America's most prestigious and profitable magazine, for which he has worked much of his adult life. It is difficult to imagine White weighed down with worries...
College experience, though inadvertently preparing for his later work as an essayist, seems not to have kindled any great ambition for literature, Elledge remarks that...
According to Wole Soyinka, a well-known Nigerian playwright and essayist, Americans and Europeans should not measure democracy in Africa by their own standards...
...hands, toiling like ants in the distance. "The poor people are dirty," Constable explained, "and to approach one of the cottages is almost insufferable." Blythe groups Wordsworth with Constable in regarding the English countryside as Eden, polluted by the presence of inferior Eves and Adams. Even William Hazlitt, an essayist with a political conscience, thought rural England was full of louts. Pinched by poverty, exhausted by labor, "all country people hate each other," he maintained...
...also many other things: an astute critic of literature and popular culture, a journalist who turned political writing into an art form, the finest English essayist of his century. Those who know of him only as a grand bogey, a synonym for some terror that may go bump in the Western night, hardly know him at all. He made it his business to tell the truth at a time when many contemporaries believed that history had ordained the lie. Yet the very name that is now so often invoked, vaguely and in vain, is a fiction...