Andrew Lang

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Andrew Lang (1888)

Andrew Lang, drawn by Burne Murdock

Andrew Lang (born March 31, 1844 in Selkirk , † July 20, 1912 in Banchory , Kincardineshire ) was a Scottish writer , anthropologist and journalist (including Daily News , Morning Post ).

Life

Andrew Lang was the eldest of eight children of John Lang, a town worker in Selkirk, Scotland, and Jane Sellar. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy , St Andrews University and Balliol College , Oxford . Thanks to his very good degree in classical philology, he became a Fellow of Merton College , Oxford. He quickly made a name for himself as a journalist , poet , theater critic and history expert . In 1911, Andrew Lang was President of the Society for Psychical Research . As a classical philologist and poet, he took part in new prose translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey , about whom he also wrote several books.

The German Rumpelstiltskin from Lang's Fairy Tales

Lang is best known today for his many publications on folklore , mythology and religion . In his work Making of Religion (1900) he advocates the thesis that old spiritual ideas are alive in popular beliefs and legends (also in the occult area such as the poltergeists ). He traveled extensively across Europe to collect folklore stories and fairy tales and published them in many books as well as numerous fairy tale collections and fairy tales , including The Blue Fairy Book .

As a historian, he is known for clearing up some ancient historical mysteries, particularly those related to Scottish history. So he clarified the identity of the British government spy Pickle (Alistair McDonnell, never suspected by the Jacobites), who was active in the vicinity of Bonnie Prince Charles . He also dealt with the " man with the iron mask " (in The valets tragedy ), rehabilitated Maria Stuart , found new documents on the Count of Saint Germain and others

In the literary field, he long directed literary criticism in Longman's Magazine and edited the works of Robert Burns . As an application of his detective skills, he also tried to unravel Charles Dickens' unfinished detective novel The Secret of Edwin Drood . He also dealt longer with the question of Shakespeare's authorship . In his later years he came to the conviction that it was not Francis Bacon, but an as yet unidentified “Great Stranger” who must have been the author of Shakespeare's works.

Lang was also very interested in researching parapsychological phenomena and anthropology and published several books on it; The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). In 1906 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy .

His marriage to Leonora Blanche Alleyne in 1875 did not result in any children.

Works

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Until 1889

• The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872)
• The Odyssey of Homer Rendered into English Prose (1879) translated with Samuel Henry Butcher
• Aristotle's Politics (1877)
• The Folklore of France (1878)
• XXII Ballades in Blue China (1880)
• Oxford. Brief Historical & Descriptive Notes (1880)
• Notes on Pictures by Millais (1881)
• The Black Thief (1882)
• Helen of Troy (1882) poems
• The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche (1882) with William Aldington
• The Iliad of Homer, a prose translation (1883) with Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers
• Custom and Myth (1884)
• The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland (1884)
• Ballads and Verses Vain (1884) selected by Austin Dobson
• Rhymes à la Mode (1884)
• Much Darker Days (1884)
• That Very Mab (1885) with May Kendall
• Books and Bookmen (1886)
• Letters to Dead Authors (1886)
• In the Wrong Paradise (1886) stories
• The Mark of Cain (1886) novel
• Lines on the Shelley Society (1886)
• Almae Matres (1887)
• He (1887) parody
• Aucassin and Nicolete (1887)
• Myth, Ritual and Religion (2 vols., 1887)
• Johnny Nut and the Golden Goose. Done into English from the French of Charles Deulin (1887)
• Grass of Parnassus (1888) poems
• Perrault's Popular Tales (1888)
• Gold of Fairnilee (1888)
• Pictures at Play or Dialogues of the Galleries (1888) with WE Henley
• The Idyls of Theocritus, Bion & Moschus (1889) translator
• Prince Prigio (1889)
• The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
• Letters on Literature (1889)
• Lost Leaders (1889)
• Ode to Golf (1889)
• The Dead Leman and Other Tales from the French (1889) translator with Paul Sylvester

1890-1899

• The Red Fairy Book (1890)
• The World's Desire (1890) with H. Rider Haggard
• Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody (1890)
• The Strife of Love in a Dream, Being the Elizabethan Version of the First Book of the Hypnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna (1890)
• The Life, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh. (1890)
• Etudes traditionnists (1890)
• Work for Dolmann in red (1890)
• How to Fail in Literature (1890)
• The Blue Poetry Book (1891)
• Essays in Little (1891)
• On Calais Sands (1891)
• The Green Fairy Book (1892)
• The Library with a Chapter on Modern English Illustrated Books (1892) with Austin Dobson
• William Young Sellar (1892)
• The True Story Book (1893)
• Homer and the Epic (1893)
• Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893)
• Waverley Novels, 48 ​​volumes (1893) editor
• St. Andrews (1893)
• Montezuma's Daughter (1893) with H. Rider Haggard
• The Yellow Fairy Book (1894)
• Kirk's Secret Commonwealth (1893)
• St Andrews (1893)
• The Tercentenary of Izaak Walton (1893)
• Ban and Arrière Ban (1894)
• Cock Lane and Common-Sense (1894)
• Memoir of RF Murray (1894)
• The Red True Story Book (1895)
• My Own Fairy Book (1895)
• Angling Sketches (1895)
• A Monk of Fife (1895)
• The Voices of Jeanne D'Arc (1895)
• The Animal Story Book (1896)
• The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1896) editor
• The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (1896) two volumes
• The Nursery Rhyme Book (1897)
• The Miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois (1897) translator
• The Pink Fairy Book (1897)
• A Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897)
• Pickle the Spy (1897)
• Modern Mythology (1897)
• The Companions of Pickle (1898)
• The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898)
• The Making of Religion (1898)
• Selections from Coleridge (1898)
• Waiting on the Glesca Train (1898)
• The Red Book of Animal Stories (1899)
• The Homeric Hymns (1899) translator
• The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four Volumes (1899) editor

1900-1909

• The Gray Fairy Book (1900)
• Prince Charles Edward (1900)
• Parson Kelly (1900)
• The Poems and Ballads of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (1900) editor
• A History of Scotland - From the Roman Occupation (1900–1907) four volumes
• Notes and Names in Books (1900)
• Alfred Tennyson (1901)
• Magic and Religion (1901)
• Adventures Among Books (1901)
• The Violet Fairy Book (1901)
• The Mystery of Mary Stuart (1901, new and revised ed., 1904)
• The Book of Romance (1902)
• The Disentanglers (1902) stories
• James VI and the Gowrie Mystery (1902)
• Notre-Dame Of Paris (1902) translator
• The Young Ruthvens (1902)
• The Gowrie Conspiracy: the Confessions of Sprott (1902) editor
• The Crimson Fairy Book (1903)
• Lyrics (1903)
• Social England Illustrated (1903) editor
• The Story of the Golden Fleece (1903)
• The Valet's Tragedy (1903)
• Social Origins (1903) with Primal Law by James Jasper Atkinson
• The Snowman and Other Fairy Stories (1903)
• Stella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies (1903) with H. Rider Haggard
• The Brown Fairy Book (1904)
• Historical Mysteries (1904)
• The Secret of the Totem (1905)
• New Collected Rhymes (1905)
• John Knox and the Reformation (1905)
• The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot (1905)
• The Clyde Mystery. A Study in Forgeries and Folklore (1905)
• Adventures Among Books (1905)
• Homer and His Age (1906)
• The Red Romance Book (1906)
• The Orange Fairy Book (1906)
• The Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart (1906)
• Life of Sir Walter Scott (1906)
• The Story of Joan of Arc (1906)
• New and Old Letters to Dead Authors (1906)
• Tales of a Fairy Court (1907)
• The Olive Fairy Book (1907)
• Poets' Country (1907) editor, with Churton Collins , WJ Loftie , E. Hartley Coleridge , Michael Macmillan
• The King over the Water (1907)
• Tales of Troy and Greece (1907)
• The Origins of Religion (1908) essays
• The Book of Princes and Princesses (1908)
• Origins of Terms of Human Relationships (1908)
• Select Poems of Joan Ingelow (1908) editor
• Three Poets of French Bohemia (1908)
• The Red Book of Heroes (1909)
• The Marvelous Musician and Other Stories (1909)
• Sir George Mackenzie King's Advocate, of Rosehaugh, His Life and Times (1909)

1910-1912

• The Lilac Fairy Book (1910)
• Does ridicule kill? (1910);
• Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy (1910)
• The World of Homer (1910)
• The All Sorts of Stories Book (1911)
• Ballades and Rhymes (1911)
• Method in the Study of Totemism (1911)
• The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912)
• Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown (1912)
• A History of English Literature (1912)
• In Praise of Frugality (1912)
• Ode on a Distant Memory of Jane Eyre (1912)
• Ode to the Opening Century (1912)

Posthumously

• Highways and Byways in The Border (1913) with John Lang
• The Strange Story Book (1913) with Mrs. Lang
• The Poetical Works (1923) edited by Mrs. Lang, four volumes
• Old Friends Among the Fairies: Puss in Boots and Other Stories. Chosen from the Fairy Books (1926)
• Tartan Tales from Andrew Lang (1928) edited by Bertha L. Gunterman
• From Omar Khayyam (1935)

Web links

Commons : Andrew Lang  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Andrew Lang in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Andrew Lang at Open Library
• William Donaldson: Lang, Andrew. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
• List of his works in the online books page
• http://www.online-literature.com/andrew_lang/shakespeare-and-bacon/

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1. ^ Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown.
2. ^ Ivor Grattan-Guinness : Psychical Research: A Guide to Its History, Principles and Practices: In Celebration of 100 Years of the Society for Psychical Research . Aquarian Press, 1982, ISBN 0-85030-316-8 , p. 123.
3. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 24, 2020 . 
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