Virginia Woolf / Wendy Bishop / Susan Miller / Scott Russell Sanders / Michael Hall / Emerson / William Hazlitt / Wendell Berry / Peter Elbow / Robert Root / Lester Faigley / William Wordsworth / Georg Lukács / Lynn Z. Bloom / Taylor Stoehr / George Eliot / /
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CHAPTER 1: MEETING THE REAL SELF IN THE ESSAY Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; ‘tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform