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Letters to Dead Authors Andrew Lang Books
Publication date: 1886Quite a range of parodies- each 'letter' is written in the style of the author addressed- from Herodotus to Lord Byron, including Ronsard, Izaak Walton, Edgar Allen Poe, and Jane Austen:
"... Knowing Lydia and Kitty so intimately as you did, why did you make of them almost insignificant characters? With Lydia for a heroine you might have gone far; and, had you devoted three volumes, and the chief of your time, to the passions of Kitty, you might have held your own, even now, in the circulating library. How Lyddy, perched on a corner of the roof, first beheld her Wickham; how, on her challenge, he climbed up by a ladder to her side; how they kissed, caressed, swung on gates together, met at odd seasons, in strange places, and finally eloped: all this might have been put in the mouth of a jealous elder sister, say Elizabeth, and you would not have been less popular than several favourites of our time."
The funniest (and most pertinent) letter by far, is to Rabelais- the satire too extensive to quote here. The final letter, to Horace, is in a tone much more elevated than the rest, and a touching close:
"... In the 'fallow leisure of life' you glance round contented, and find all very good save the need to leave all behind. Even that you take with an Italian good-humour, as the folk of your sunny country bear poverty and hunger.
Durum, sed levius fit patientia!
To them, to you, the loveliness of your land is, and was, a thing to live for. None of the Latin poets your fellows, or none but Virgil, seem to me to have known so well as you, Horace, how happy and fortunate a thing it was to be born in Italy."
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Publication date 1886
Quite a range of parodies- each 'letter' is written in the style of the author addressed- from Herodotus to Lord Byron, including Ronsard, Izaak Walton, Edgar Allen Poe, and Jane Austen
"... Knowing Lydia and Kitty so intimately as you did, why did you make of them almost insignificant characters? With Lydia for a heroine you might have gone far; and, had you devoted three volumes, and the chief of your time, to the passions of Kitty, you might have held your own, even now, in the circulating library. How Lyddy, perched on a corner of the roof, first beheld her Wickham; how, on her challenge, he climbed up by a ladder to her side; how they kissed, caressed, swung on gates together, met at odd seasons, in strange places, and finally eloped all this might have been put in the mouth of a jealous elder sister, say Elizabeth, and you would not have been less popular than several favourites of our time."
The funniest (and most pertinent) letter by far, is to Rabelais- the satire too extensive to quote here. The final letter, to Horace, is in a tone much more elevated than the rest, and a touching close
"... In the 'fallow leisure of life' you glance round contented, and find all very good save the need to leave all behind. Even that you take with an Italian good-humour, as the folk of your sunny country bear poverty and hunger.
Durum, sed levius fit patientia!
To them, to you, the loveliness of your land is, and was, a thing to live for. None of the Latin poets your fellows, or none but Virgil, seem to me to have known so well as you, Horace, how happy and fortunate a thing it was to be born in Italy."
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