Latest Literary Essays and Addresses Author:James Russell Lowell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Subjects: English literature Ensayos estadounidenses Ensayos literarios Ensayos politicos Languages, Modern Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh History / Social History Literar... more »y Criticism / Poetry Foreign Language Study / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Foreign Language Study / General History / Social History Humor / Form / Essays Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SOME LETTERS OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.1 1888. I Was first directed to Landor's works by hearing how much store Emerson set by them. I grew acquainted with them fifty years ago in one of those arched alcoves in the old college library in Harvard Hall, which so pleasantly secluded without wholly isolating the student. That footsteps should pass across the mouth of his Aladdin's Cave, or even enter it in search of treasure, so far from disturbing only deepened his sense of possession. These faint rumors of the world he had left served but as a pleasant reminder that he was the privileged denizen of another, beyond "the flaming bounds of place and time." There, with my book lying at ease and in the expansion of intimacy on the broad window-shelf, shifting my cell from north to south with the season, I made friendships, that have lasted me for life, with Dodsley's "Old Plays," with Cotton's "Montaigne," with Hakluyt's "Voyages," among others that were not in my father's library. It was the merest browsing, no doubt, as Joh...« less