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Andrew Lang 1844–1912 Scot. scholar & author

Lang, Andrew

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Scottish historian and folklore scholar. His writings include historical works; anthropological studies, such as Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887) and The Making of Religion (1898), which involved him in controversy with the anthropologist James G Frazer ; novels; and the series of children's books which he inspired and edited, beginning with The Blue Fairy Book (1889). He was born in Selkirk and was educated at Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews and Glasgow universities, and Balliol College, Oxford; he was a fellow of Merton College from 1868–74. His earliest published work was a volume of graceful verse, The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872), which was followed by other similar volumes. In the realm of folklore and anthropology, Lang produced Custom and Myth (1884), Magic and Religion (1901), Social Origins (1903), and The Secret of the Totem (1905). As a historian he was keenly interested in unravelling mysteries, as in The Mystery of Mary Stuart (1901) and John Knox (1905). His…
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From Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
The quintessential Victorian man of letters, Lang wrote, edited, or translated almost three hundred books and some five thousand articles treating varied subjects. The diversity of those concerns is reflected in the range of titles for the articles he contributed to the ninth edition of the…
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Full text Article Lang, Andrew (1844–1912)

From The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
Lang, Andrew Prince Comical spies the sleeping...
Scottish folklorist, scholar, poet, and man of letters. Ironically for someone of his vast output, he is now remembered mainly for his fairy tales, and for his Fairy Book series. Born in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, he was steeped in the ballads and legends of those parts. He was sent to school…
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Full text Article LANG, Andrew (1844–1912)

From The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
Folklorist and man of letters, editor of The Blue Fairy Book and its successors, Lang was the eldest son of a lawyer and was born and brought up in Selkirk, in the Scottish border country. As a boy he heard fairy tales and legends of the area from his nurse and other local people; he read Scottish…
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Scottish man of letters. He specialized in mythology, famously arguing against Max Müller that folktale was the foundation of literary mythology. He also wrote history texts, popular fairy books, studies of literary figures and poetry. Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses…
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From The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Scottish man of letters St Andrews by the Northern sea, A haunted town it is to me! ‘Almae Matres’ (1884) If the wild bowler thinks he bowls, Or if the batsman thinks he's bowled, They know not, poor misguided souls, They too shall perish unconsoled. I am the batsman and the bat, I am…
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Full text Article Andrew Lang (1844–1912)

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Roman orator, politician, and philosopher Four dice are cast and a Venus throw results – that is chance; but do you think it would be chance, too, if in one hundred casts you made one hundred Venus throws? It is possible for paints flung at random on a canvas to form the outline of a face; but do…
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