Ennius essayed didactic poetry in his Epicharmus, a work on the nature of the physical universe.
Hebrew-language journals were established, and the Hebrew essay and didactic poetry, calling for religious and cultural reforms, came into their own, particularly in the hands of the poet Judah Leib Gordon (1830 92) and the essayist Moses Leib Lilienblum (1843 1910).
It is also halfway between a novel and a didactic essay.
It was probably to the unhappy Sanetomo that Teika addressed the prefatory essay to his didactic collection, Kindai shūka ("Superior Poems of Our Time"), and his treatise on poetry Maigetsusho ("Monthly Notes").
If the steady flow of books which began with Economic Problems Of The Church (1955) can, to some extent, be seen as a succession of more scholarly explorations of the themes sketched out in the early didactic essays, they also reflect the extraordinary sweep of Hill's interests and mind.
In this sense, the word "essay" would hardly fit the didactic tone of Aristotle's Rhetoric or his Metaphysics.
Now comes the feminist cultural critic Bell Hooks with her new book of essays, "All About Love," written in a didactic style that would merge moral philosophy with self-help.
Books, short stories, essays ― most of it terrible, obtuse, and didactic, and I knew this, but I wrote anyway.
Roland Barthes, in his 1972 essay "The Grain of the Voice," accused the singer of applying didactic, "sentimentally clear" interpretive devices, of "lacking in any 'grain,' in signifying weight".
Gioia's review of Flamingo Watching compared her "strongly compressed", "magnificently didactic" work to Emily Dickinson's, and to the essays of the French Enlightenment.
