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- 2008941982 abstract "Enhanced by a exploration of nonfiction writing as an art form and the early roots of the essay, a collection of nonfiction essays features seminal works by such writers as Theophrastus of Eressos, Francis Bacon, and Dino Campana.".
- 2008941982 contributor B11390756.
- 2008941982 created "2009.".
- 2008941982 date "2009".
- 2008941982 date "2009.".
- 2008941982 dateCopyrighted "2009.".
- 2008941982 description "Enhanced by a exploration of nonfiction writing as an art form and the early roots of the essay, a collection of nonfiction essays features seminal works by such writers as Theophrastus of Eressos, Francis Bacon, and Dino Campana.".
- 2008941982 description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- 2008941982 description "The list of Ziusudra / Ziusudra of Sumer -- Dialogue of pessimism / Ennatum of Akkad -- I have looked diligently at my own mind / Heraclitus of Ephesus -- These are them / Theophrastus of Eressos -- Some information about the Spartans / Mestrius Plutarch -- Sick / Lucius Seneca -- Questions and answers / Azwinaki Tshipala -- The biography of Mr. Five-Willows / T'ao Ch'ien -- Is there a God? / Li Tsung-Yuan -- Miscellany / Li Shang-yin -- The pillow book / Sei Shōnagon -- In all things I yearn for the past / Yoshida Kenkō -- My journey up the mountain / Francesco Petrarch -- Definitions of earthly things / Bernardino de Sahagún -- On some verses of Virgil / Michel de Montaigne -- Antitheses of things / Francis Bacon -- Hydriotaphia, urn burial ; or, A discourse of the sepulchral urns lately found in Norfolk / Thomas Browne -- Narrow road to the interior / Matsuo Bashō -- A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public / Jonathan Swift -- My cat Jeoffry / Christopher Smart -- The marriage of heaven and hell / William Blake -- The English mail-coach / Thomas De Qunicey -- Ondine / Aloysius Bertrand -- Be drunk / Charles Baudelaire -- A season in hell / Arthur Rimbaud -- A throw of the dice will never abolish chance / Stéphane Mallarmé -- The I-singer of universong / Velimir Khlebinikov -- The night / Dino Campana -- Anabasis / Saint-John Perse -- Eighteen seconds / Antonin Artaud -- Metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity / Fernando Pessoa -- The death of the moth / Virginia Woolf -- Conversation in the mountains / Paul Celan -- The pebble / Francis Ponge -- Dread of one single end / Edmond Jabès -- Tisanes / Ana Hatherly -- Before sleep / Octavio Paz -- Fires / Marguerite Yourcenar -- Tlön, Uqbar, orbis tertius / Jorge Luis Borges -- The instruction manual / Julio Cortázar -- The egg and the chicken / Clarice Lispector -- Egypt / Michel Butor -- He and I / Natalia Ginzburg -- Trench Town rock / Kamau Braithwaite -- Suggestions for running amok / Peter Handke -- The Atlantic man / Marguerite Duras -- Afar a bird / Samuel Beckett -- Seven walks / Lisa Robertson -- What reconciles me / John Berger.".
- 2008941982 extent "695 p. ;".
- 2008941982 identifier "1555975321 (pbk.)".
- 2008941982 identifier "9781555975326 (pbk.)".
- 2008941982 issued "2009".
- 2008941982 issued "2009.".
- 2008941982 language "eng".
- 2008941982 publisher "Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press,".
- 2008941982 subject "808.84 L899 22".
- 2008941982 subject "Essays.".
- 2008941982 subject "PN6141 .L67 2009".
- 2008941982 tableOfContents "The list of Ziusudra / Ziusudra of Sumer -- Dialogue of pessimism / Ennatum of Akkad -- I have looked diligently at my own mind / Heraclitus of Ephesus -- These are them / Theophrastus of Eressos -- Some information about the Spartans / Mestrius Plutarch -- Sick / Lucius Seneca -- Questions and answers / Azwinaki Tshipala -- The biography of Mr. Five-Willows / T'ao Ch'ien -- Is there a God? / Li Tsung-Yuan -- Miscellany / Li Shang-yin -- The pillow book / Sei Shōnagon -- In all things I yearn for the past / Yoshida Kenkō -- My journey up the mountain / Francesco Petrarch -- Definitions of earthly things / Bernardino de Sahagún -- On some verses of Virgil / Michel de Montaigne -- Antitheses of things / Francis Bacon -- Hydriotaphia, urn burial ; or, A discourse of the sepulchral urns lately found in Norfolk / Thomas Browne -- Narrow road to the interior / Matsuo Bashō -- A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public / Jonathan Swift -- My cat Jeoffry / Christopher Smart -- The marriage of heaven and hell / William Blake -- The English mail-coach / Thomas De Qunicey -- Ondine / Aloysius Bertrand -- Be drunk / Charles Baudelaire -- A season in hell / Arthur Rimbaud -- A throw of the dice will never abolish chance / Stéphane Mallarmé -- The I-singer of universong / Velimir Khlebinikov -- The night / Dino Campana -- Anabasis / Saint-John Perse -- Eighteen seconds / Antonin Artaud -- Metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity / Fernando Pessoa -- The death of the moth / Virginia Woolf -- Conversation in the mountains / Paul Celan -- The pebble / Francis Ponge -- Dread of one single end / Edmond Jabès -- Tisanes / Ana Hatherly -- Before sleep / Octavio Paz -- Fires / Marguerite Yourcenar -- Tlön, Uqbar, orbis tertius / Jorge Luis Borges -- The instruction manual / Julio Cortázar -- The egg and the chicken / Clarice Lispector -- Egypt / Michel Butor -- He and I / Natalia Ginzburg -- Trench Town rock / Kamau Braithwaite -- Suggestions for running amok / Peter Handke -- The Atlantic man / Marguerite Duras -- Afar a bird / Samuel Beckett -- Seven walks / Lisa Robertson -- What reconciles me / John Berger.".
- 2008941982 title "The lost origins of the essay / edited and introduced by John D'Agata.".
- 2008941982 type "text".