Most literary forms developed slowly. Often their origin, like that of Greek tragedy, is lost in the shadows of prehistory. But we know exactly when the essay began and who began it. In an understandable burst of ehthusiasm, Virginia Woolf beghan that "talking of oneself, following ones own vagaries, giving the whole map, weight, colour and circumferece of the soul in its confusion, its variety, its imperfection-this art belongs to one man only: to Montaigne."
This book is donated by Peter M. Huska. literature, essay