“The
essay, in its American incarnation, is a direct outgrowth of the
sermon: argumentative, insistent, not infrequently irritating.
Americans, in my observation – and despite our fetish for the beauties
of individuality and personal freedom – are always, however smilingly,
trying to convince somebody, somewhere, of something, and our essayistic
tradition bears this out.”
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