Who invented English essay Where can you find more information about the history of English essay?

Answer 1

Francis Bacon's 'Essays' were published in 1597, and the OED gives it as the first use of the word in the sense of a short literary work in the English language. It was certainly a well-established literary term by the 18th Century.

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Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne

My answer would be Adam Ferguson born and educated in Scotland.

Look for: "An Essay on the History of Civil Society"by Adam Ferguson date 1767. Should be easily found on wikipedia or Google..

This was arguably the first real & still recognised "essay".

Adam Ferguson's essays were said to have inspired Karl Marx to put his thoughts with ink onto paper.

(also without Sir Walter Scott, there would have been no modern novel's).

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