This anthology contains classic essays, speeches, narrative poems and dramatic monologues. Authors include such essayists as Charles Lamb, Charles Dickens, Christopher Morley, Robert Benchley, and Stephen Leacock; orators and leaders, such as Demosthenes, Patrick Henry, Frederick Douglass, Ronald Reagan, and John F. Kennedy; and poets, such as Alfred Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth, and Robert Browning.