"It's a great essay, and I can't wait to publish it," he said.
This piece had all the makings — the situation, the language, the implications — of a great essay.
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Also see Isabelle Dupuy's great essay in the New York Times.
Roland Barthes's great essay on photography, "Camera Lucida" — a book that greatly influenced Sebald's work — is relatively conventional, by contrast.
The speech seemed to have been composed in intense solitude, and it has the personal drama, the encompassing structure, the moral and intellectual intricacy, of a great essay.
In his great essay "On Classical Political Philosophy," Strauss emphasizes the continuity between pre-philosophic political speech and its refinement by classical political philosophy.
The echo, here, is of Freud, who writes, in his great essay on the uncanny, about "the sense of helplessness" that is caused by such unsettling repetitions.
The great essay on Dante appeared two years after Eliot was confirmed in the Church of England (1927); in that year he also became a British subject.
Walter Benjamin, in his great essay "The Storyteller," written in the nineteen-thirties, argues that classic storytelling is structured around death.
