On-Line Primary Course Essays

This is the repository of the primary course essays which are not in the Norton Reader but are available, free and in the public realm, online. The schedule of readings, with duplicates of these hotlinks, is at the Course Syllabus.

• John Donne: Meditation 17.
• Elizabeth Gaskell: The Last Generation in England.
• Joseph Addison: On the Essay Form.
• Richard Steele: Love Letters.
• [Online Essay: Chinese]: qi-cheng-zhuan-he.
• [Online Essay: English Translation]: qi-cheng-zhuan-he
• G.K. Chesterton: On the Creature Called Man.
• P.J. O'Rourke: On God.
• Francis Fukuyama: The End of History?
• Samuel Huntingdon: The Clash of Civilizations.