Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, was an international writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In the United States, Hearn is also known for his writings about the city of New Orleans based on his ten-year stay in that city...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 June 1850
CountryJapan
attempted english four lines minor poem poet specialty william
Only one English poet of our own day, and that a minor one, has attempted to make the poem of four lines a specialty - that is William Watson.
odd muse
Woo the muse of the odd.
ideas differences literature
Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
rivers heaven chinese
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
would-be literature study
For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
japan self people
Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people to live with?
literature west ethical
Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
hard-work done littles
All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.
tolerance matter ethics
Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
passion fiction literature
I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
ideas effort generations
But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
great-day useless examination
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
special literature students
The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
ohio cities new-orleans
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.