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Life and literature

by Lafcadio Hearn ; selected and edited with an introd. by John Erskine

(Essay index reprint series)

Books for Libraries, 1969

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Reprint of the 1917 ed

A third selection from lectures delivered at the University of Tokyo between 1896 and 1902. The two preceding volumes are entitled Interpretations of literature (1915) and Appreciations of poetry (1916)

Contents of Works

  • On reading in relation to literature
  • On the relation of life and character to literature
  • On composition
  • Note upon the abuse and use of literary societies
  • Literary genius, a fragment
  • On modern English criticism and the contemporary relations of English to French literature
  • The prose of small things
  • The poetry of George Meredith
  • George Borrow
  • Note upon Rossetti's prose
  • Thomas Lovell Beddoes
  • The Victorian spasmodics
  • The poetry of Lord De Tabley
  • Note on some French romantics
  • Some French poems on insects
  • Note upon an ugly subject
  • Tolstoi's theory of art
  • Note upon Tolstoi's "Resurrection."
  • Some poems on death
  • Some fairy literature
  • The most beautiful romance of the Middle Ages [Amis and Amiles]
  • Ionica
  • Old Greek fragments

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