HistoryAcademicAn 1895 cover of Harpers, a US magazine that prints a number of essays per issue.The objective, the factual, and the concrete particular: The essayists that write from this pole “do not speak directly of themselves, but turn their attention outward to some literary or scientific or political theme. Their art consists of setting…[Read more]

Main article: Zuihitsu”After School Play Interrupted by the Catch and Release of a Stingray” is a simple time-sequence photo essay.A photographic essay strives to cover a topic with a linked series of photographs. Photo essays range from purely photographic works to photographs with captions or small notes to full-text essays with a few or many…[Read more]

Non-literary typesMagazine or newspaperThe abstract-universal: In this pole “we find those essayists who do their work in the world of high abstractions”, who are never personal and who seldom mention the particular facts of experience.AcademicCompare and contrastThe word essay derives from the French infinitive essayer, “to try” or “to attempt”.…[Read more]