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essay (Fr. essai , ‘attempt’) Usually short, non-fictional prose composition, written expressing a personal point of view. The essay form originated with the 16th-century French writer Montaigne. Famous British essayists include Francis Bacon , Henry Fielding , Dr Samuel Johnson , Oliver Goldsmith , Matthew Arnold , Charles Lamb , and William Morris . Noted US essayists include Ralph Waldo Emerson , Henry David Thoreau , Oliver Wendell Holmes , James Thurber , George Santayana , and Dorothy Parker .

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