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The young Daniel Defoe thought he was destined to become a Presbyterian minister. Instead he became a man of letters: poet, political journalist, economic essayist, novelist. In his Essay on the Original of Literature of 1726, Defoe argues for the sacred Hebrew origins of modern writing--or, as he puts it, that "Power to make the Paper speak." The work stands out as a writer's bold glorification of the craft of literature, radically understood.
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This modern reprint of An Essay on the Original of Literature has been produced without modernization of the text of 1726. Orthographic inconsistencies have not been emended. Further, the editors note Defoe's transcription from Thomas Bang's Caelum Orientis of 1657, but have made no attempt to revise the Latin portion of the Essay against the corresponding text in Bang's book. --The Archangul Foundation
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- PublisherOwlworks
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1934084018
- ISBN 13 9781934084014
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages88
- EditorD.N. DeLuna, Assisted By John Astin, Theodore L. Blumberg, James C. Harris, Thomas M. Izbicki, Jonathan C. Lurie, Richard Macksey, Gordon Schochet
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