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For the previous National Basketball Association streaming video player, look at Andrew Lang (basketball player). Andrew Lang (March 31 1844 - July 20 1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was the poet, novelist, & literary critic, & contributor to anthropology. He nowadays is better called a collector of folk and fairy tales.
Education He was educated at a Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took the number one class around the final authoritative schools in 1868, becoming a fellow & after honorary fellow of Merton College. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon mass produced a reputation when one of the entity & virtually all versatile writers of the day.
Professions His foremost publication was the volume of metric experiments, A Ballads & Lyrics of Old France (1872), & this was followed at intervals by more volumes of dainty verse, Ballades around Blue China (1880, hypertrophied edition, 1888), Ballads & Verses Vain (1884), selected by Mr Austin Dobson; Rhymes à la Mode (1884), Grass of Parnassus (1888), Ban & Arrière Ban (1894), Just released Collected Rhymes (1905).
Scholarship He collaborated with S. H. Butcher in a prose translation (1879) of the Odyssey, and with E. Myers and Walter Leaf in a prose version (1883) of the Iliad, both noted for scholarship and style. As a Homeric scholar, of conservative views, he took a high rank. His Homer & a Heroic poem appeared within 1893; the freshly prose translation of The Homeric Hymns inside 1899, using essays literary & mythologic, where parallels to a Greek myths come given from either the traditions of savage races; & his Homer & his Age around 1906.
Journalism His strictly journalistic activity was from either either the number 1 of a varied description, ranging from effervescent "leaders" for the Daily News to miscellaneous articles for the Morning Post, & for several years he was literary editor of ''Longman's Magazine; no critic was in more request, whether for occasional articles and introductions to new editions or as editor of dainty reprints.
As historian To the survey of Scottish history Lang brought the scholarly care for detail, the piquant literary style, & the gift for disentangling complicated questions. A Mystery of Mary Stuart'' (1901, freshly & revised ed., 1904) was the consideratiin of the new weak thrown on Mary's history by the Lennox manuscripts in the University library, Cambridge, strengthening her case by restating a perfidy of her accusers. He besides wrote monographs on The Portraits & Jewels of Mary Stuart (1906) & James VI and the Gowrie Mystery (1902). A somewhat unfavorable learn from of John Knox presented in his book John Knox & a Reformation (1905) aroused considerable disceptation. He gave newly data just about a continental career of the Young Pretender in Pickle the Spy (1897), an account of Alastair Ruadh Macdonell, whom he identified with Pickle, the infamous Hanoverian spy. This was followed within 1898 by The Companions of Pickle,& within 1900 by the monograph in Prince Charles Edward. Around 1900 he began a History of Scotland from either a Roman Occupation, a quaternary volume of which (1907) brought Scottish history down to 1746. ''A Gentleman's gentleman's Tragedy (1903), which will require its title from either an essay on the "Man with the lron Mask," collects xii papers in historical mysteries, & The Monk of Fife'' (1896) occurs as fictitious story purporting to exist as written by the immature Scot around France around 1429-1431.
Folklore and anthropology Lang's versatility was besides shown inside his works in folklore and on primitive religion. A earliest one was Custom & Myth (1884); inside Myth, Ritual & Religion (Deuce vols., 1887, French trans., 1896) he explained a irrational elements of mythology when survivals from either earliest savagery; in The Making of Religion (an idealization of savage animism) he maintained a being of high spiritual ideas among savage races, & instituted comparisons between savage practices & a occult phenomena among civilised races; he dealt by having the origins of totemism in Social Origins, printed (1903) together with J. J. Atkinson's Primal Law.
Psychic research He was one of a founders of the survey of "Psychical Research," & his more writings in anthropology include The Book of Dreams & Ghosts (1897), Magic & Religion (1901) & A Secret of the Totem (1905).
Essayist He carried a humour & sub-acidity of discrimination which marked his criticism of fellow folk-lorists into a discussion of strictly literary cases within his Books & Bookmen (1886), Letters to Dead Authors (1886), Letters in Literature (1889), etc.
The Fairy Books His Blue Fairy Tale Book (1889), attractively produced & illustrated, was followed annually at Christmas by the book of fairy tales & romances drawn from either several sources.
Literary editor He edited A Verse form & Songs of Robert Burns (1896), and was responsible the Life & Letters (1897) of JG Lockhart, and A Life, Letters & Diaries (1890) of Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh.
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Red Fairy Book E-text from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library; includes images. Yellow Fairy Book E-text from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library; includes images. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts E-text of the 1897 edition, from Gaslight. Andrew Lang (1844-1912) Introduction to his life and list of his works. Violet Fairy Book E-text from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library; includes images. Andrew Lang A biography of Andrew Lang based on the 1911 Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Blue Fairy Book E-text from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library; includes images. The Olive Fairy Book Searchable online version at the Literature Network. The Blue Fairy Book Searchable online version at the Literature Network. The Brown Fairy Book Searchable online version at the literature Network. |
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