Books and Habits, from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn. Lafcadio Hearn

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       Introduction

       BOOKS AND HABITS

       Chapter I

       The Insuperable Difficulty

       Chapter II

       On Love in English Poetry

       Chapter III

       The Ideal Woman in English Poetry

       Chapter IV

       Note Upon the Shortest Forms of English Poetry

       Chapter V

       Some Foreign Poems on Japanese Subjects

       Le Samourai

       Le Daimio (Matin de bataille)

       Chapter VI

       The Bible in English Literature

       Chapter VII

       The “Havamal”

       Old Northern Ethics of Life

       Chapter VIII

       Beyond Man

       Chapter IX

       The New Ethics

       Chapter X

       Some Poems about Insects

       Chapter XI

       Some French Poems about Insects

       Chapter XII

       Note on the Influence of Finnish Poetry in English Literature

       Chapter XIII

       The Most Beautiful Romance of the Middle Ages

       Chapter XIV

       “Ionica”

       Chapter XV

       Old Greek Fragments

       INDEX

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      These chapters, for the most part, are reprinted from Lafcadio Hearn’s “Interpretations of Literature,” 1915, from his “Life and Literature,” 1916, and from his “Appreciations of Poetry,” 1917. Three chapters appear here for the first time. They are all taken from the student notes of Hearn’s lectures at the University of Tokyo, 1896–1902, sufficiently described in the earlier volumes just mentioned. They are now published in this regrouping in response to a demand for a further selection of the lectures, in a less expensive volume and with emphasis upon those papers which illustrate Hearn’s extraordinary ability to interpret the exotic in life and in books.

      It should be remembered that these lectures were delivered to Japanese students, and that Hearn’s purpose was not only to impart the information about Western literature usually to be found in our histories and text-books, but much more to explain to the Oriental mind those peculiarities of our civilization which might be hard to understand on the further side of the Pacific Ocean. The lectures are therefore unique, in that they are the first large attempt by a Western critic to interpret us to the East. That we shall be deeply concerned in the near future to continue this interpretation on an even larger scale, no one of us doubts. We wish we might hope for another genius like Hearn to carry on the work.

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