Form and idea thirty essays for college study - Bloomfield, Morton W.; Robbins, Edwin W. (Edwin Winslow) 1916- (New York Macmillan, 1953)
Anna Pavlova / Agnes de Mille -- New Mexico / D.H. Lawrence -- The American student as I see him / Gilbert Highet -- Bread and hyacinths / William H. Cornog -- The humble female / Agnes Rogers -- Bibliotherapy / Irwin Edman -- What is good English? / Albert Marckwardt -- What is the Bible? / Mary Ellen Chase -- Copernicus and the planets / Herbert Dingle -- The shape of ancient seas / Rachel Carson -- The snout / Loren C. Eiseley -- Queer customs, potsherds, and skulls / Clyde Kluckhohn -- The courtship of animals / Julian Huxley -- Courtship through the ages / James Thurber -- The poignancy of neurotic conflicts / Karen Horney -- What opinion polls can and can't do / Nathan Glazer -- Great newspapers, if any / Gerald Johnson -- Principles of modern form-economy / Lewis Mumford -- Taste in music / Virgil Thomson -- "Three strangers" / Adolph Deutsch -- Why great men are not chosen presidents / James Bryce -- The Federalist, No. 10 / James Madison -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Sermons in cats / Aldous Huxley -- Dusk in fierce pajamas / E.B. White -- Some unsentimental confessions of a nature writer / Joseph Wood Krutch -- Preface to The nigger of the Narcissus / Joseph Conrad -- Nobel Prize award speech / William Faulkner -- The critical nature of a work of art / Edgar Wind -- "Useless" knowledge / Bertrand Russell.
Keywords: English essays; American essays