Literature and Other Arts
There is, in one form or another, a good bit of information concerning literature on our website, as one might well expect. There are also occasional essays and bits of information on other arts. Pages listed below should be of interest to individuals seeking information on these topics:
Literature
100 Best Books, by John Cowper Powys
Adventures Among Books, by Andrew Lang
American Literature – A lengthy essay from a 1911 encyclopedia
Among Famous Books, by John Kelman
Among My Books, by James Russell Lowell
Astrology in Shakespeare’s plays
Biographical Dictionary of Literature
Books & Characters: French and English, by Lytton Strachey
Books and Culture, by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Books Fatal to Their Authors, by P. H. Ditchfield
Delicious Vice – reading novels
Familiar Studies of Men and Books, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Hours in a Library, by Leslie Stephens
Initial Studies in American Letters, by Henry A. Beers
Literary Taste: How to Form It, by Arnold Bennett
My Literary Passions, by William Dean Howells
Outlines of English and American Literature, by William J. Long
Favorite Poems
- Christmas Poetry
- Dane-geld, by Rudyard Kipling
- Halloween, by Robert Burns
- The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
- A Rolling Stone, by Robert Service
- Sea Fever, by John Masefield
Short Stories
- Christmas Eve in War Time, by E. P. Roe
- Dagon, by H.P. Lovecraft
- Three Thanksgiving Kisses, by E. P. Roe
Arts (General)
Louis Grell, book illustrator
Music – see our Music page