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Donald Barthelme
Raymond Carver
Isak Dinesen
John Cheever
Flannery O'Connor
Anton Chekov
Jorge Luis Borges
Katherine A. Porter
Andre Dubus
Wendell Berry

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Guy Davenport
Franz Kafka
Sherman Alexie
Ernest Hemingway
Bobbie Ann Mason
Edgar Allan Poe
John Updike
Eudora Welty

Anna Akhmatova
Walt Whitman
Mark Doty
Czeslaw Milosz
Galway Kinnell
Thomas McGrath
Wendell Berry

Yusef Komunyakaa
Frank O'Hara
Seamus Heaney
Charles Simic
Gwendolyn Brooks
W. C. Williams
Octavio Paz
Allen Ginsberg
William Stafford
Louise Gluck
John Keats
Gerald Stern
Russell Edson
Li-Young Lee
Kenneth Koch
Arthur Rimbaud
Marianne Moore
Adrienne Rich

Federico Garcia Lorca
Lucille Clifton
Thom Gunn
A.R. Ammons
James Schuyler
Pablo Neruda
John Ashbery
Philip Levine
Wallace Stevens
Ovid
Stanley Kunitz
Sharon Olds
Robert Penn Warren
Philip Larkin
Muriel Rukeyser
Robert Pinsky
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Catullus
Elizabeth Bishop
William Blake
Joseph Brodsky
James Wright

Michel de Montaigne
R. W. Emerson
Wendell Berry
E. B. White
Annie Dillard
James Baldwin
George Orwell
Terrence Des Pres
John Burroughs
H. L. Mencken
Edward Abbey
John Berger
Lewis Thomas
John McPhee
Nat Hentoff
H. D. Thoreau
Richard Rodriguez
Stephen Jay Gould
Sven Birkerts
Barry Lopez
James Thurber


Essayists Then and Now

The Classical Essayists

Jack Lynch's List of Eighteenth-Century E-Texts

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