Feb 14 2009
Essay Reading Challenge - Essays 3 thru 7: Lawrence, Maeterlinck, Mann, Maugham, Sartre
I’ve really gotten behind in posting about the essays I’ve been reading. I read a little out of Essays of the Masters every evening, and I’ve managed to finish five more essays. Rather than do a detailed review of each, I’m going to do a “sum-up” post.
Title: Market Day
Author: D.H. Lawrence
Style: Descriptive
Source: Essays of the Masters, edited by Charles Neider
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
This is exactly what a descriptive essay should be. The topic is broad enough to allow for enough material, but not so broad that the essay rambles on and on. Lawrence is a master of description:
To buy and to sell, but above all, to commingle. In the old world, men make themselves two great excuses for coming together to a centre, and commingling freely in a mixed, unsuspicious host. Market and religion. These alone bring men, unarmed, together since time began. A little load of firewood, a woven blanket, a few eggs and tomatoes are excuse enough for men, women, and children to cross the foot-weary miles of valley and mountain. To buy, to sell, to barter, to exchange. To exchange, above all things, human contact.
Title: Chyrsanthemums
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Style: Descriptive
Source: Essays of the Masters, edited by Charles Neider
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Although this is the same type of essay as the Lawrence one, Maeterlinck did exactly the opposite of Lawrence: he chose a topic so narrow that I was sick of it before I finshed reading. Six pages on chrysanthemums is about five pages too long, in my opinion.
Title: Anna Karenina
Author: Thomas Mann
Style: Critical
Source: Essays of the Masters, edited by Charles Neider
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Mann writes on one of my favorite books, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and shows how different his writing and philosophy is in this work than in his earlier works. Informative and interesting.
Title: Summing Up
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Style: Personal
Source: Essays of the Masters, edited by Charles Neider
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Very witty personal essay about Maugham’s philosophy of life.
Title: Manhattan: The Great American Desert
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Style: Descriptive
Source: Essays of the Masters, edited by Charles Neider
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Sartre didn’t think much of New York City. Good descriptions, though.























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