The phrase "a pair of essays" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to two essays that are being discussed, compared, or submitted together.
Example: "For this assignment, you are required to submit a pair of essays that explore different perspectives on the same topic."
Alternatives: "two essays" or "a duo of essays".
"The Fire Next Time," Baldwin's most celebrated work, is a pair of essays, totalling little more than a hundred pages.
Two were string quartets: a meditative essay centering on a short melody of Asian coloring, and a pair of essays in fake film music.
P.S. Writing about "Mythologies" at this site, Marco Roth rightly notes that Barthes took on the right-wing populist Poujadists in a pair of essays and adds that one could easily substitute "The Tea Party" for Poujadisme.
He shows similar good sense in placing a pair of essays by William H. Gass and John Updike at the back, where they might encourage further musings without intruding on the main course — in this case, the glimpses of art to which the book is largely devoted.
That sense of expectation has many guises, and we've explored some of those in a pair of essays by Tom Glencross published earlier this year, both of which examined the socio-political machinations that underpin the contemporary nightlife experience.
The next August he produced a pair of brilliant essays in "Débats" in which he amplified his interpretation of the American war.
For evidence of how impressive the Victorians could be in the public sphere, Miss Himmelfarb offers us, among much else, a pair of excellent essays on the post-Darwinian debate between science and religion.
Professor Trachtenberg, in a gesture that is the equivalent in architectural circles of making the assertion that Leonardo did not paint one of his best-known pictures or that Mozart did not compose one of his symphonies, makes his assertion in a pair of long essays in Casabella, an Italian architectural journal.
Early in the Trump presidency, media critic Jay Rosen wrote a pair of prescient essays arguing that Trump's nonstop falsehoods were part of something much bigger — a concerted and deliberate assault by Trump and his allies on the media's core institutional role in our democracy, one aided and abetted by shifting information technologies.
It also contains a pair of musicological essays and dozens of Guthrie's drawings, paintings and handwritten lyrics, drawn from the vast collection bequeathed to the Smithsonian 25 years ago by the estate of Moe Asch, founder of Folkways Records, the label for which Guthrie recorded much of his best work.
I received a bottle of antibacterial hand soap and a pair of used books: essays on genocide and The Oxford Book of British Political Anecdotes.
