Intention and choice : the character of prose / edited by Gregory T. Polletta.

An apology for poetry, by Sir P. Sidney.--Three essays, by Sir F. Bacon.--Death's duel, by J. Donne.--From The life of Dr. John Donne, by I. Walton.--Areopagitica, by J. Milton.--A modest proposal, by J. Swift.--The retreat and death of Julian, by E. Gibbon.--Where I lived, and what I lived for, by H. D. Thoreau.--A crisis in my mental history, by J. S. Mill.--Why the novel matters, by D. H. Lawrence.--The crack-up, by F. S. Fitzgerald.--What I believe, by E. M. Forster.--The noble rider and the sound of words, by W. Stevens.--Butterflies, by V. Nabokov.--The sealed treasure, by S. Bellow.--Notes of a native son, by J. Baldwin.