This book reveals a very complex relationship between author and text and a very particular mode of sincere communication. It explains the illuminating process of writing essay involving self-reflection, which is undoubtedly a very productive approach made by essayists like - William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb. By focusing on the generic components of the essays of William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb, I show that these writers used their essays for self-revelation, to reflect the relationship of authenticity to writing.This piece of work also focus on a very important thought of why these essayists were overlooked and why they need to come back, to be read again in the modern world?