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Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Fellow British essayist Hilaire Belloc said of G.K. Chesterton that the "intellectual side of him has been masked for many and for some hidden by his delight in the exercise of words and especially in the comedy of words. . . . . [His] was a voice from which I learnt continually, from the first day I heard it until the last; acquiring from it discoveries, explanations, definitions which continue to increase my possessions" (The Observer, June 21, 1936).
Chesterton's frequently anthologized essay "On Lying in Bed" originally appeared in the collectionTremendous Trifles (1909).
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Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com An American poet, journalist, and writer of satirical essays and short stories, Ambrose Bierce is best known today for his collection of misanthropic definitions (The Devil's Dictionary, 1906) and his Civil War story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890). At the age of 71, Bierce disappeared in Chihuahua, Mexico while observing Pancho Villa's rebels during the Mexican Revolution. His body was never found.
Roughly half of Bierce's short stories concern some aspect of the supernatural, and as Terrence Rafferty has observed, "He writes as a suave raconteur of the unearthly, with just enough of the ironic in hisvoice to maintain his distance from appalling events while drawing his readers closer and closer to the inexplicable mysteries at their heart." A more skeptical and sardonic tone can be heard in Bierce's short essay "The Clothing of Ghosts," originally published in 1902 and reprinted in Tangential Views (1911).
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com No part of Mammoth Cave was to me more impressive than its entrance, probably because here its gigantic proportions are first revealed to you, and can be clearly seen. That strange colossal underworld here looks out into the light of day, and comes in contrast with familiar scenes and objects.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com A mile or so from the entrance we pass a couple of rude stone houses, built forty or more years ago by some consumptives, who hoped to prolong their lives by a residence in this pure, antiseptic air. Five months they lived here, poor creatures, a half dozen of them, without ever going forth into the world of light. But the long entombment did not arrest the disease; the mountain did not draw the virus out, but seemed to draw the strength and vitality out, so that when the victims did go forth into the light and air, bleached as white as chalk, they succumbed at once, and nearly all died before they could reach the hotel, a few hundred yards away.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Influenced by Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, American naturalist and literary critic John Burroughs published more than two dozen collections of essays, many of them offering vivid descriptions of the natural world. In the following essay, first published in 1894, he reports on a visit to Mammoth Cave in central Kentucky.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com At this moment beneath my window there is a dear little girl who brings home a package from the grocer's. She is tugged and blown by her umbrella, and at every puff of wind she goes up on tiptoe. If I were writing a fairy tale I would make her the Princess of my plot, and I would transport her underneath her umbrella in this whisking wind to her far adventures, just as Davy sailed off to the land of Goblins inside his grandfather's clock. She would be carried over seas, until she could sniff the spice winds of the south. Then she would be set down in the orchard of the Golden Prince, who presently would spy her from his window--a mite of a pretty girl, all mussed and blown about. And then I would spin out the tale to its true and happy end, and they would live together ever after. How she labors at the turn, hugging her paper bag and holding her flying skirts against her knees! An umbrella, however, usually turns inside out before it gets you off the pavement, and then it looks like a wrecked Zeppelin. You put it in the first ash-can, and walk off in an attempt not to be conspicuous.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com At the age of 37, Charles S. Brooks (1878-1934) gave up a successful career in business to become a writer. Motivated by "an appreciation of the subtlety of words, of their cadence, and overtone," he soon achieved a different kind of success with his popular essays, stories, and plays.
In this essay from the collection Chimney-Pot Papers (1919), Brooks relies on personification and description to convey the pleasures of a rainstorm in the city. If you enjoy "On a Rainy Morning," you may be interested in reading "On the Difference Between Wit and Humor" and "The Writing of Essays," also by Charles S. Brooks.
Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com In this brief essay, noted satirist Ambrose Bierce expresses his "strong distaste" for forensic eloquence--"the art of saying things in such a way as to make them pass for more than they are worth."
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