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For more than four hundred years the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this lively, fertile genre. Distinguished from the formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its drive toward candor and confession, and its often quirky first-person voice, the personal essay offers above all a feast of individuality. It seizes on both the minutiae of daily life - fashions, rituals, vanities, family life, romantic foibles, the pleasures and pangs of solitude - and the great social and political issues of the day, from a daring, opinionated perspective. Frequently humorous, the personal essay is perhaps the most instantly approachable and divertingly human type of nonfiction. This robust tradition is represented here by more than seventy-five essays, beginning with influential forerunners from ancient Rome (Seneca, Plutarch) and the Far East to the mastering of the form by its sixteenth-century founder, Michel de Montaigne; through the golden age of the English essay (from Addison & Steele and Samuel Johnson through Orwell and Woolf) to its variegated outcroppings in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, and its efflorescence in the United States. Some of the highlights include Montaigne's astonishingly frank discussion of sexuality, "On Some Verses of Virgil"; Hazlitt's boisterous account of a prizefight and his vitriolic meditation "On the Pleasure of Hating"; Lamb's tender and self-mocking Elia pieces; Turgenev's powerful first-person account of a beheading; Tanizaki's dazzling decoding of Japanese culture and domesticity; Thoreau's leisurely, pantheistic nature-stroll,"Walking"; F. Scott Fitzgerald's mordant scrutiny of his breakdown; James Baldwin's immortal portraits of his difficult father, himself, and his mentor, Richard Wright; and Joan Didion's bittersweet account of her leave-taking from New York. The personal essay form is placed in context by Phillip Lopate, himself an acclaimed essayist, with an illuminating, in-depth introduction. With generous selections from fifty writers from around the world, The Art of the Personal Essay is a landmark collection of brilliant, discerning, and immensely entertaining writing.