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Montaigne
Barfield
Emerson

>>8455357
sir thomas browne is good
burton too

What do you like about the essayists you mentioned?

Or are you just regurgitating a reading list for a course you took once?

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o'conner and eliot are the first that come to my mind

>>8455553
yikes m8 why so hostile

>>8455553
Interesting ideas on interesting topics written in an interesting way.

>>8455682
Sorry, didn't mean to be hostile. I just think we can all be better /lit/izens.

Orwell's Shooting an Elephant is brilliant. I haven't read any other essays of his, but I'm told it is no anomaly that the one I have read is as good as it is.

>>8455726
Found the pleb

Emil Cioran
Hakim Bey
Joan Didion
Giorgio Manganelli
Nicola Masciandaro

These are my favourites, but I'm open to suggestions. I'll also add

Hunter S. Thompson
Stan Brakhage

While not being proper essay writers, their writings belong to the field "spiritually"

>>8455736
Found the pseud/contrarian who has only read Animal Farm and 1984

Ralph Wheres Waldo Emerson

>>8455357
I actually liked Big Red Son despite not really digging DFW's fiction