I want to start reading essays. What's your favourite collection?

I'm a fan of Annie Dillard

>>9997064
Montaigne's are the best, i.e. the most mind expanding, but I love Addison and Steele's Spectator series, Coleridge's The Friend Essays, and among the still living W. H. Gass is the generally acknowledged master in English. Just finished his series Finding a Form, and it was excellent.

Hazlitt's, Chesterton's, and Emerson's are my favorites. Their style is what I enjoy the most.

Montaigne

Get an anthology on a subject and read essays from that
I like the norton anthology of lit theory

>>9998544
>Hazlitt
>Chesterton

I really wouldn't have thought someone would like both.

John D'Agata

>>9998556
That's actually a good one, and where I discovered Loren Eisley, whom more here should read.

>>9998640
Which collection of essays would you recommend? I've only ever heard good things about his writing.

>>9998504
Montaigne is such a worthleds clown

Emerson, Addison, and de Quincey are good tho

>>9998562
Why not?

>>9998556
I think essays can be a bit broader than essays on literary theory.

>>9998746
yeah of course
i was naming one anthology i like
he asked my favorite colletion

>>9998702
The Unexpected Universe, The Night Country