INTRODUCTION
It may well be doubted whether works of controversy
serve any useful purpose. ‘On an opponent,’
as Mr. Matthew Arnold said, ’one never does
make any impression,&r...
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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 S...
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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 pro...
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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 ...
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Modern Mythology
Andrew Lang