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Books and Habits, from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

By Lafcadio Hearn

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Books and Habits
from the lectures of
Lafcadio Hearn
- Selected and Edited with an Introduction by
- John Erskine
  - Professor of English Columbia University
- Professor of English Columbia University
- 1922
Contents
Introduction
BOOKS AND HABITS
- Chapter I
The Insuperable Difficulty
- Chapter II
On Love in English Poetry
- Chapter III
The Ideal Woman in English Poetry
- Wishes
  - Somewhere or Other
  - Amaturus
  - Meet We No Angels, Pansie?
  - Evelyn Hope
  - The Triumph
  - The Solitary-Hearted
- Somewhere or Other
- Amaturus
- Meet We No Angels, Pansie?
- Evelyn Hope
- The Triumph
- The Solitary-Hearted
- Chapter IV
Note Upon the Shortest Forms of English Poetry
- Chapter V
Some Foreign Poems on Japanese Subjects
- Le Samourai
- Le Daimio (Matin de bataille)
- Chapter VI
The Bible in English Literature
- Chapter VII
The “Havamal”
- Old Northern Ethics of Life
- Chapter VIII
Beyond Man
- Chapter IX
The New Ethics
- Chapter X
Some Poems about Insects
- KING SOLOMON AND THE ANTS
- Chapter XI
Some French Poems about Insects
- MA LIBELLULE
  - THE GRASSHOPPER
- THE GRASSHOPPER
- Chapter XII
Note on the Influence of Finnish Poetry in English Literature
- Chapter XIII
The Most Beautiful Romance of the Middle Ages
- Chapter XIV
“Ionica”
- MIMNERMUS IN CHURCH
- Chapter XV
Old Greek Fragments
INDEX