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Letters on Literature

by Lang Andrew

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Andrew Lang was a prolific Scots litterateur. He wrote poems, novels, worked as a literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as one of the most important collectors of folk and fairy tales.

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...agewas tolerant. You add that the literary taste of the Upper MississippiValley is much more pure than the waters of her majestic river, and thatyou only wish you knew who the two culprits were that bought books ofFielding's. Ah, madam, how shall I answer you? Remember that if you have Johnson onyour side, on mine I have Mrs. More herself, a character purer than "theconsecrated snow that lies on Dian's lap. " Again, we cannot believeJohnson was fair to Fielding, who had made his friend, the author of"Pamela, " very uncomfortable by his jests. Johnson owned that he readall "Amelia" at one sitting. Could so worthy a man have been so absorbedby an unworthy book?Once more, I am not recommending Fielding to boys and girls. "Tom Jones"was one of the works that Lydia Languish hid under the sofa; even MissLanguish did not care to be caught with that humorous foundling. "Fielding was the last of our writers who drew a man, " Mr. Thackeraysaid, "and he certainly did not study from a draped...

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