The American Scholar
- Writer: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Published: August 31, 1837
- Themes: Social Unity, Nature and Connection, Creation and National Identity
Civil Disobedience
- Also Called: Resistance to Civil Government, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- Writer: Henry David Thoreau
- Published: in Aesthetic Papers, in 1849
- Themes: Individual conscience and action, Just and unjust laws, Democracy in the United States
Shakespeare’s Sister
- Writer: Virginia Woolf
- Published: 1928
- Genre: Feminist Essay
- Themes: Women’s intelligence, Men women’s valuation
Tradition and Individual Talent
- Writer: T. S. Eliot
- Published: 1919
- Themes: Tradition, Originality, Influence
Literature And Society
- Writer: Frank Raymond “F. R.” Leavis
- Published:
- Theme: Relationship between literature and society
