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Excerpt from Modern Essays
There also we find a pitfall of the personal essay the temptation to become too ostentatiously quaint, too deliberately 'whimsical' (the word which, by loathsome repetition, has become emetic). The fine ?avor and genius of the essay - as in Bacon and Montaigne, Lamb, Hazlitt, Thackeray, Thoreau; per 'haps even in Stevenson - is the rich bouquet of per sonality. But soliloquy must not fall into monologue. One might put it thus: that the perfection of the familiar essay is a conscious revelation of self done inadvertently.
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