Word: essayed
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...Agata said he was determined to compile an anthology of essays which could dispel the notion of the essay as a genre devoted solely to instruction and the conveyance of information...
...accomplish this goal, D’Agata included essays from Ziusudra, William Blake, Matsuo Basho, Clarice Lispector, and Jonathan Swift, among others, and he explained that such writers respected the essay as an art form...
Holding a public reading in the Barker Center, D’Agata read excerpts from “The Lost Origins of the Essay,” his new anthology. After beginning with a reading from the introduction of the work, a succession of Harvard professors read selected essays from the anthology. The evening concluded with a question-and-answer session with the author himself...
Speaking to an intimate gathering of Harvard’s literary community last night, guest speaker John D’Agata spoke out against the view that most people “are fearful of the essay because they were things that we had to do here in school...
...place of such a limited conception of the essayistic form, D’Agata advocated for a different critical interpretation—the essay...