First published in the New York Independent, these essays take the form of letters to imagined correspondents, a young American book-hunter among them. Lang writes on modern English poetry, Fielding, Longfellow, a friend of Keats, Virgil, Aucassin and Nicolette, Plotinus, Lucretius, La Rochefoucauld and the art of vers de société.
Graceful, opinionated criticism from the Victorian man of letters best known for his coloured Fairy Books. Download the free EPUB.