Letters to Dead Authors

by Andrew Lang

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Letters to Dead Authors is a book by Andrew Lang. The preface says sixteen of these Letters, which were written at the suggestion of the Editor of the “St. James’s Gazette,” appeared in that journal. The same preface lists the Letters to Horace, Byron, Isaak Walton, Chapelain, Ronsard, and Theocritus as not published before.

The letter headed To Charles Dickens says it has been said that every man is born a Platonist or an Aristotelian, though the enormous majority of us, to be sure, live and die without being conscious of any invidious philosophic partiality whatever. A letter in the book addresses someone who created the Steynes and Newcomes, the Beckys and Blanches, Captain Costigan and F. B., and the Chevalier Strong. A verse in the book says an Hour we have, and yet Eternity Looms o’er us, and the Thought of Heaven or Hell.

About the author

Andrew Lang

The Blue Fairy Book of 1889 did well enough for Longmans, Green to keep the series running for a quarter of a century, and Andrew Lang put his name to twenty-five volumes, The Yellow Fairy Book among them in 1894. Much of the labour was his wife's.