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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; xi p., 1 l., 265 p. col. front. (port.) 22 cm ; LCCN: 46-23247 ; LC: PR4877; Dewey: 928.2 ; OCLC: 250504 ; "First published October, 1946." ; blue cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents: To Andrew Lang -- A Border Boyhood -- Edinburgh Academy -- St. Andrews and Glasgow -- Balliol and Merton -- The Lost Poet -- The Divine Amateur -- Mythologist and Classical Scholar -- The Master of Fairyland -- Fairnilee and Pantouflia -- The Approach to Romance -- The World's Desire -- The Romance of History -- The Literary Critic -- Lang and His Friends -- The Last Years -- Before and After -- Epilogue -- Key to Reference numbers -- Appendix A: The Odyssey Translations -- Appendix B: Andrew Lang's Prologue to 'The World's Desire' -- Appendix C: Articles and Notes on Andrew Lang -- A Short-Title Bibliography of the Works of Andrew Lang -- Addenda to bibliography. ; Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green was a member of the Inklings circle of writers, which included J R R Tolkien, Owen Barfield, Dorothy Sayers and C S Lewis; it was green who suggested the name of Lewis' childrens' book should be The Chronicles of Narnia ; here he writes the biography of the influential 19th century compiler of fairytales, the folklorist Andrew Lang ; with a color frontispiece by W B Richmond ; foxing to textblock ; store stamp of the noted Atlanta bookstore, C E Cantrell's; (Cantrell himself was the author of a mystical book about angels and Georgia's Stone Mountain) ; VG. Book.
Andrew Lang Biography
Andrew Lang (born March 13, 1844, Selkirk, Scotland – died July 20, 1912, Banchory, Kincardineshire) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a Scottish historian, translator, journalist, lecturer, biographer, poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as having created one of the most important collections of folk and fairy tales in the world—his "color" fairy book series. Lang often collaborated with his wife, Leonore Blanche Alleyne, in adapting and translating the stories, which were taken from countries throughout the world.
Lang was also a prolific author of works both fiction and non-fiction; he wrote his own fairy tales such as Prince Prigio (1889) and Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893), and wrote numerous historical texts including A Short History of Scotland (1911). His collected works include essays on religion, myths, and magic under such titles as Custom and Myth (1884), Myth, Ritual, and Religion (1886), and The Making of Religion (1900). Andrew Lang was great friends with Robert Louis Stevenson and H. Rider Haggard, with whom he wrote The World's Desire (1890).
The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named for him.
Biography
Andrew Lang was the eldest of the eight children of John Lang, town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife, Jane Plenderleath Sellar, daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first duke of Sutherland. He was educated at Selkirk grammar school, and at the Edinburgh Academy. He next attended University of St. Andrews, which now hosts the "Andrew Lang Lecture Series" in his honor. Lang then went to Balliol College, Oxford, England, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming an honorary Fellow of Merton College (1865 to 1874).
Lang studied Latin and Greek, especially the Homeric texts, and translated the French poetry of The Andrew Lang Site. Outstanding resource for scholars of Lang’s work created and maintained by Sharin Schroeder. The site includes critical materials on Lang’s life and works, links to key texts, and extensive bibliographical information. A particular aim of the site is to recover and catalogue Lang’s periodical writings. Calkins, Roger W. “Andrew Lang (31 March 1844–20 July 1912)” In Modern British Essayists, First Series. Dictionary of Literary Biography 98. Edited by Robert Beum, 204–213. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1990. Short overview of Lang’s life and work focused upon his activities as an essayist and scholar. de Cocq, Antonius Petrus Leonardus. Andrew Lang: A Nineteenth Century Anthropologist. Tilburg, The Netherlands: Zwijsen, 1968. Critical study of Lang focused on his anthropological thinking. Includes chapters on Lang’s life and times, an analysis of his writing in the context of 19th-century anthropology, and assessments of his work on the paranormal, myths, and religion. Donaldson, William. “Andrew Lang (1844–1912).” In The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by H. G. C. Matthew and Brian Howard Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. DOI: 10.1093/ref:odnb/34396 Concise and informative introduction to Lang’s life, work and thought. Includes short surveys of his major writings and principal areas of activity. Available as an online resource to subscribers. Green, Roger Lancelyn. Andrew Lang: A Critical Biography with a Short-Title Bibliography of the Works of Andrew Lang. Leicester, UK: Edmund Ward, 1946. Authoritative book-length treatment of Lang’s life and work, though it is now dated in some respects, especially in light of recent scholarly treatments that have sought to question conventional humanistic approaches to Lang’s wri Born March 31, 1844 Died July 20, 1912 Genre Literature & Fiction, Poetry Influences Neil Munro, Robert KirkNeil Munro, Robert Kirk...more edit data Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang
Tales of the Scottish writer and anthropologist Andrew Lang include The Blue Fairy Book (1889).
Andrew Gabriel Lang, a prolific Scotsman of letters, contributed poetry, novels, literary criticism, and collected now best folklore.
The Young Scholar and Journalist
Andrew Gabriel Lang, the son of the town clerk and the eldest of eight children, lived in Selkirk in the Scottish borderlands. The wild and beautiful landscape of childhood greatly affected the youth and inspired a lifelong love of the outdoors and a fascination with local folklore and history. Charles Edward Stuart and Robert I the Bruce surrounded him in the borders, a rich area in history. He later achieved his literary Short History of Scotland.
A gifted student and avid rTales of the Scottish writer and anthropologist Andrew Lang include The Blue Fairy Book (1889).
Andrew Gabriel Lang, a prolific Scotsman of letters, contributed poetry, novels, literary criticism, and collected now best folklore.
The Young Scholar and Journalist
Andrew Gabriel Lang, the son of the town clerk and the eldest of eight children, lived in Selkirk in the Scottish borderlands. The wild and beautiful landscape of childhood greatly affected the youth and inspired a lifelong love of the outdoors and a fascination with local folklore and history. Charles Edward Stuart and Robert I the Bruce surrounded him in the borders, a rich area in history. He later achieved his literary Short History of Scotland.
A gifted student and avid reader, Lang went to the prestigious Saint Andrews University, which now holds a lecture series in his honor every few years, and then to Balliol College, Oxford. He later published Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes about the city in 1880.
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