All essay issue: people, places, and prose.(Editorial)(Editorial)

The Antioch Review | March 22, 2004| | Copyright

"A literary composition, analytical or interpretative in nature, dealing with its subject from a more or less limited or personal standpoint and permitting a considerable freedom of style and method. Though commonly essays are brief enough for reading at one sitting, the term is also applied to systematic works treating their subjects under a series of captions, as Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Occasionally poetic works bear the title, as Pope's Essay on Man (1733) and Essay on Criticism (1711). In general an essay is distinguished from a treatise or ...

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