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Letters On Literature
Preface
by Lang, Andrew
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These Letters were originally published in the Independent of New
York. The idea of writing them occurred to the author after he had
produced "Letters to Dead Authors." That kind of Epistle was open
to the objection that nobody would write so frankly to a
correspondent about his own work, and yet it seemed that the form of
Letters might be attempted again. The Lettres e Emilie sur la
Mythologie are a well-known model, but Emilie was not an imaginary
correspondent. The persons addressed here, on the other hand, are
all people of fancy--the name of Lady Violet Lebas is an invention
of Mr. Thackeray's: gifted Hopkins is the minor poet in Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes's "Guardian Angel." The author's object has been to
discuss a few literary topics with more freedom and personal bias
than might be permitted in a graver kind of essay. The Letter on
Samuel Richardson is by a lady more frequently the author's critic
than his collaborator.
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