Essayism

tentative nature of their method or form.

essayists are sometimes ashamed to be essayists)

push out, to chase, then to demand

other words, the essay is first of all a type of measurement or judgement

what is familiarly known is not properly known at all

to hide a good deal both about essays and about the nature of effort and experimen

please do not call it ‘creative nonfiction’)

have no clue how to write about the essay as a stable entity or established clas

makes it sound as though all I care for is style, that old-fashioned thin

Michael Hamburger: ‘but the essay is not a form, has no form; it is a game that creates its own rules