The complete online text of Letters on Literature by Andrew Lang.

More than any other British writer of the second half of the nineteenth century, Andrew Lang successfully championed the fairy tale as appropriate reading material for children. This astonishingly productive man of letters influenced children's literatur...

For more than thirty-five years, from 1875 to 1912, Andrew Lang's essays, reviews, and editorial leaders shaped the opinions and influenced the tastes of the reading public of England and the United States. He was a prolific and facile writer who was alw...

Andrew Lang was "the greatest bookman of our age, and after [Robert Louis] Stevenson, the last great man of letters of the old Scottish tradition," affirms George Gordon in The Dictionary of National Biography. A confirmed polymath and gifted polyglot, i...

I applaud the attention that WLT continues to give to subaltern and emerging literatures. Numerous articles and essays in our professional journals, while addressing a variety of literatures and approaches, seem bent on conveying a singular idea: literature is instrumental. As a colleague...

I WAS DELIGHTED TO SEE that the May-August 2004 issue of WLT focused on children's literature, a subject that receives far less public discussion than it deserves, and added to this delight was Daniel Simon's piece introducing the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's...