Hello. I’m an essayist in the works and I find that my work is too personal, too sentimental. I’m trying to search for inspiration in the form of essays where the “I” isn’t completely foregrounded. Something like “The Female Body” by Margaret Atwood. Do you have any recommendations?

violentwavesofemotion:

Hey, sure. Feel free to check out these, they are amazing 🙂

• “At The Same Time: Essays & Speeches” by Susan Sontag
• “Selected Essays” by T.S. Eliot
• “Plainwater: Essays & Poetry” by Anne Carson

• “Art in the Light of Conscience: Eight Essays on Poetry,” by Marina Tsvetaeva

• “Arts Of The Possible: Essays & Conversations” by Adrienne Rich
• “Selected Essays, 1934 – 1943: Historical, Political & Moral Writings” by Simone Weil
• “A Collection of Critical Essays,” by Boris Pasternak
• “Upstream: Selected Essays,” by Mary Oliver
• “Travels with Myself & Another: A Memoir” by Martha Gellhorn (not an essay collection but pay close attention to the style of the writing)
• “The Death Of The Moth & Other Essays” by Virginia Woolf
• “We Have Only This Life To Live: The Selected Essays Of Jean-Paul Sartre (1939 – 1975)” by Jean-Paul Sartre
• “Selected Cronicas: Essays” by Clarice Lispector
• “Critical Essays on Music, Art & Representation” by Roland Barthes