Author of such masterfully constructed novels as A Crystal Age and Green Mansions, Hudson stepped away from nature writing in 1910 to pen this unique volume. Included are the essays, ‘Some Ways of Studying Literature, ‘ ‘The Study of Poetry, ‘ ‘The Study of Prose Fiction, ‘ ‘The Study of Drama, ‘ ‘On Personality in Literature, ‘ and ‘The Study of the Short Story, ‘ among others.
关于作者
William Henry Hudson (1862–1918) was a professor of English Literature at Stanford University and author of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. His best remembered work,
The Famous Missions of California (1901), recounts the work of Father Junipero Serra and the twenty-one missions in California he founded. Sometimes confused with the British bird-lover naturalist and traveler, this William Henry Hudson wrote
The Sphinx and Other Poems (1900),
The Meaning and Value of Poetry (1901),
The Strange Adventures of John Smith (1902), and
The Man Napoleon (1915), among many other works.