영어로 읽는 고전 _ 앤드류 랭의 작은 에세이들
"Essays in Little"은 19세기 후반에 쓰여진 Andrew Lang의 문학 에세이 모음집입니다. 이 모음집 전반에 걸쳐 Lang은 다양한 작가들과 그들의 작품을 논하며, 그들이 문학에 미친 중요성과 영향력에 대한 통찰을 제공합니다. 에세이들은 알렉상드르 뒤마와 로버트 루이스 스티븐슨과 같은 주목할 만한 작가들의 프로필, 특정 문학 주제들에 대한 탐구, 그리고 당시 문학계에 대한 비평 등 다양한 주제를 다룹니다.
"Essays in Little"의 도입부는 Lang이 각 에세이의 내용과 목적을 설명하는 서문을 통해 모음집의 기조를 설정합니다. 그는 이 책을 위해 새롭게 쓰여진 몇몇 에세이들을 언급하며, 이는 새로운 통찰과 이전에 출판된 작품들이 혼합되어 있음을 보여줍니다. Lang은 알렉상드르 뒤마에 대한 헌사로 시작하여 뒤마의 작품들에서 발견되는 지속적인 기쁨과 모험을 강조하면서, 풍부하고 매력적인 산문으로 독자들을 문학적 인물들에 대한 논의로 이끕니다.
에세이들은 Lang의 문학에 대한 열정과 그가 검토하는 작가들의 공헌에 대한 사려 깊은 분석을 반영하며, 이는 독자들에게 19세기 문학 문화에 대한 균형 잡힌 시각을 제공합니다.
Classics Read in English _ Essays in Little by Andrew Lang
"Essays in Little" by Andrew Lang is a collection of literary essays written during the late 19th century. Throughout the collection, Lang discusses various authors and their works, offering insights into their significance and impact on literature. The essays cover a range of topics, including profiles of notable writers like Alexandre Dumas and Robert Louis Stevenson, explorations of specific literary themes, and critiques of the literary landscape of his time. The opening of "Essays in Little" sets the tone for the collection, as Lang provides a preface that outlines the contents and explains the purpose behind each essay. He mentions that several essays were newly written for this volume, indicating a blend of fresh insights and previously published work. Lang’s rich and engaging prose invites readers into a discussion of literary figures, starting with a tribute to Alexandre Dumas, emphasizing the enduring joy and adventure found in Dumas' works. The essays reflect Lang's passion for literature and his thoughtful analysis of the contributions of the authors he examines, which offers readers a well-rounded perspective on 19th-century literary culture.
Among the contents
Alexandre Dumas is a writer, and his life is a topic, of which his devotees never weary. Indeed, one lifetime is not long enough wherein to tire of them. The long days and years of Hilpa and Shalum, in Addison?the antediluvian age, when a picnic lasted for half a century and a courtship for two hundred years, might have sufficed for an exhaustive study of Dumas. No such study have I to offer, in the brief seasons of our perishable days. I own that I have not read, and do not, in the circumstances, expect to read, all of Dumas, nor even the greater part of his thousand volumes. We only dip a cup in that sparkling spring, and drink, and go on,?we cannot hope to exhaust the fountain, nor to carry away with us the well itself. It is but a word of gratitude and delight that we can say to the heroic and indomitable master, only an ave of friendship that we can call across the bourne to the shade of the Porthos of fiction.
