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Contents:
TotheViscountessWolseleyPrefaceElzevirsBalladeoftheRealandIdealCuriositiesofParishRegistersTheRowfantBooksToF.L.SomeJapaneseBogie-booksGhostsintheLibraryLiteraryForgeriesBibliomaniainFranceOldFrenchTitle-pagesABookman'sPurgatoryBalladeoftheUnattainableLadyBook-lovers
AndrewLang(1844-1912)wasaprolificScotsmanofletters,apoet,novelist,literarycriticandcontributortoanthropology.Henowisbestknownasthecollectoroffolkandfairytales.Asajournalist,poet,criticandhistorian,hesoonmadeareputationasoneoftheablestandmostversatilewritersoftheday.LangwasoneofthefoundersofthestudyofPsychicalResearch,andhisotherwritingsonanthropologyincludeTheBookofDreamsandGhosts(1897),MagicandReligion(1901)andTheSecretoftheTotem(1905).HewasaHomericscholarofconservativeviews.OtherworksincludeHomerandtheEpic(1893);aprosetranslationofTheHomericHymns(1899),withliteraryandmythologicalessaysinwhichhedrawsparallelsbetweenGreekmythsandothermythologies;andHomerandhisAge(1906).HealsowroteBalladesinBlueChina(1880)andRhymeslaMode(1884). |
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