TY - BOOK AU - Hearn,Lafcadio AU - Erakine,John TI - Life and literature PY - 1917/// CY - London PB - Heinemann KW - Literature KW - English literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism N1 - A third selection from lectures delivered at the University of Tokyo between 1896 and 1902. The two preceeding volumes are entitled'Interpretations of literature' (1915) and'Appreciations of poetry (1916) cf. introd; TRUNCATED; 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 spasmodies.--The poetry of Lord De Tabley.--Note on some French romantics.--Some French poems on insects.--Note upon an ugly subject.--Tolstol's theory of art.--Note upon Tolstol's death.--Some fairy literature.--The most ER -