An Attempt at a Lyric Introduction to the Forthcoming Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord

The essay that follows shamelessly rips off language from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ezra Pound, and William Wordsworth

By Heidi Czerwiec

It is the honourable characteristic of the Essay that its materials are to be found in every subject which can interest the human mind. The evidence of this fact is to be sought, not in the writings of Critics, but in those of Essayists themselves.

This is why the best craft writing comes from its practitioners.

During the first summer that author...