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The lost origins of the essay / edited and introduced by John D'Agata.

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Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2009.

9781555975326 (pbk.) :

1555975321 (pbk.)

695 p. ; 23 cm.

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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