Talks to writers / by Lafcadio Hearn ; selected and edited with an introduction by John Erskine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904.

Contributor:

Erskine, John, 1879-1951.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Milton Mausner Collection of Lafcadio Hearn (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Mausner, Milton A., Estate of (donor) (Mausner Collection copy)

Mausner, Milton A., 1918-2012 (former owner) (Mausner Collection copy)

Frankenstein, V., Mrs. (autograph) (Mausner Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvi, 243 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920.

Contents:

On the relation of life and character to literature

On composition

Studies of extraordinary prose: The Norse writers ; Sir Thomas Browne ; Björnson ; Baudelaire

The value of the supernatural in fiction

The question of the highest art

Tolstoi's theory of art

Note upon the abuse and the use of literary societies

On reading

Literature and public opinion

Farewell address.

Notes:

Reprinted from the author's "Interpretations of literature", 1915, and his "Life and literature", 1917. cf. Introd.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Mausner Collection copy has many ms. underlines, notes and marginal marks in blue ink or pencil in text; some ms. notes in blue ink or pencil on pastedowns and free endpapers.

Mausner Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by the estate of Milton A. Mausner.

Mausner Collection copy has autograph ("Mrs. V. Frankenstein 2324 North Park av. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania") of Mrs. V. Frankenstein in pencil on front free endpaper.

Mausner Collection copy has newspaper clipping with portrait and obituary of John Erskine laid in; portion of page from magazine(?) with review of The selected letters of William Carlos Williams laid in.

OCLC:

3124990