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Books and Habits, from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

by Lafcadio Hearn

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Excerpt: ...to give you a few lectures upon English poetry thus classified, but we must not expect that the lectures will be authoritatively complete. Indeed, we have no time for lectures of so thorough a sort. All that I can attempt will be to give you an idea of the best things that English poets have thought and expressed upon certain subjects. You know that the old Greeks wrote a great deal of beautiful poetry about insects,

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