Life and literature / 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.

Milton Mausner Collection of Lafcadio Hearn (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

x, 393 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dodd, Mead, 1919.

Contents:

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 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.

Notes:

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). Cf. introd.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

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

Mausner Collection copy: some leaves partially or wholly unopened at fore-edge.

OCLC:

6506758