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The lost origins of the essay
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Publication Date
c2009
Language
English
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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.
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