Early Writers – AP Research – 2016
WRITER
ESSAY
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1. Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527)
“The Morals of a Prince”*
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2. Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592)
“Of Smells”*
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3. Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
“Of Revenge” and “Of Truth’
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4. Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
“Good Manners & Good Breeding”
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5. Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
“The Royal Exchange”
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6. Steele, Richard (1672-1729)
“On Recollections of Childhood”
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7. Chesterfield, Lord (1694-1773)
“Upon Affectations”*
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8. Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
“Arriving at Perfection”*
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9. Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
“Conversation”
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10. Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774)
“On Dress”
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11. Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774)
“On National Prejudice”
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12. Boswell, James (1740-1795)
“On War”
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13. Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
“A Vindication of the Rights of Women”*______________
14. Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
“On the Pleasure of Hating”
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15. Newman, John Henry (1801-90)
“Secular Knowledge”
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16. Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
“The Conservative” or “Nature”
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17. Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
“Why I Went to the Woods”*
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18. Butler, Samuel (1835-1902)
“Of Knowing What Gives Pleasure” _________________
19. Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
“Reading the River”*
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20. Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914)
“Disintroductions”
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21. Santayana, George (1863-1952)
“Intellectual Ambition”
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22. Santayana, George (1863-1952)
“Intuitive Morality”
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23. Chesterton, G.K. (1874-1936)
“A Defense of Penny Dreadfuls”
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24. Forster, E.M. (1879-1970)
“My Own Centenary” or “My Woods”*________________
25. Mencken, H.L. (1880-1956)
“The Libido of the Ugly”
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26. Woolfe, Virginia (1882-1941)
“”Death of a Moth”
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27. Porter, Katherine Anne (1890-1980)
“The Necessary Enemy”
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