In the Essays, Montaigne invents a new literary form that allows an author the freedom and flexibility to reflect on almost any aspect of the human condition. The essay form has been widely imitated since Montaigne’s time and has influenced some of the greatest English and American writers as this article from NEH’s Humanities magazine documents.
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The Essays of Montaigne, which are at once the most celebrated and the most permanent of his productions, form a magazine out of which such writers as Bacon and Shakespear did not disdain to help themselves; and indeed, as Hallani observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and subsequent.
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Montaigne in the French translation for other later Essais; as far as this particular essay is concerned, Montaigne's reference is doubtless to the Latin original of 1 571. Critics do not deny this source for other essays because Montaigne had the French translation (15 81) in his own library, whereas for.