Books and Habits
by Lafcadio Hearn
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904
- Title
- Books and Habits, from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
- Credits
- Produced by Ted Garvin, Barbara Tozier and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Poetry -- History and criticism
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 14338
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14338
- Release Date
- December 13, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Books and Habits — from the lectures of
- 2.Lafcadio Hearn — Selected and Edited with an Introduction by — John Erskine — Professor of English Columbia University — 1922
- 3.Contents
- 4.Introduction
- 5.BOOKS AND HABITS — Chapter I
- 6.The Insuperable Difficulty — Chapter II
- 7.On Love in English Poetry — Chapter III
- 8.The Ideal Woman in English Poetry — Wishes — Somewhere or Other — Amaturus — Meet We No Angels, Pansie? — Evelyn Hope — The Triumph — The Solitary-Hearted — Chapter IV
- 9.Note Upon the Shortest Forms of English Poetry — Chapter V
- 10.Some Foreign Poems on Japanese Subjects — Le Samourai — Le Daimio (Matin de bataille) — Chapter VI
- 11.The Bible in English Literature — Chapter VII
- 12.The “Havamal” — Old Northern Ethics of Life — Chapter VIII
- 13.Beyond Man — Chapter IX
- 14.The New Ethics — Chapter X
- 15.Some Poems about Insects — KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS — Chapter XI
- 16.Some French Poems about Insects — MA LIBELLULE — THE GRASSHOPPER — Chapter XII
- 17.Note on the Influence of Finnish Poetry in English Literature — Chapter XIII
- 18.The Most Beautiful Romance of the Middle Ages — Chapter XIV
- 19.“Ionica” — MIMNERMUS IN CHURCH — Chapter XV
- 20.Old Greek Fragments
- 21.INDEX
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