Andrew Lang
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Andrew Lang, né à Selkirk en Écosse le 31 mars 1844 et mort le 20 juillet 1912, était un homme de lettres écossais, poète, romancier, critique littéraire.
[modifier] Biographie
il est surtout connu pour ses travaux sur le folklore, la mythologie et la religion. Il tente d'expliquer la formation de la religion, du surnaturel à partir du milieu naturel.
Éditeur du Harper's Magazine en 1885, il aide Henry Rider Haggard à publier Les Mines du Roi Salomon et fait paraître avec lui The World's Desire, une sorte de suite de l'Odyssée.
[modifier] Ouvrages
- 1872-1889
- The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872)
- The Odyssey Of Homer Rendered Into English Prose (1879). Traduction en collaboration avec Samuel Henry Butcher.
- Aristotle's Politics (1877)
- The Folklore of France (1878)
- XXII Ballades in Blue China (1880)
- Oxford. Brief historical & descriptive notes (1880)
- Notes on Pictures by Millais (1881)
- The Black Thief (1882)
- Helen of Troy (1882). Poésies.
- The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche (1882). Avec William Aldington.
- The Iliad of Homer, a prose translation (1883). Avec Walter Leaf et Ernest Myers.
- Custom and Myth (1884)
- The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland (1884)
- Ballads and Verses Vain (1884)
- Rhymes à la Mode (1884)
- Much Darker Days (1884)
- That Very Mab (1885). Avec May Kendall
- Books and Bookmen (1886)
- Letters to Dead Authors (1886)
- In the Wrong Paradise (1886). Nouvelles.
- The Mark of Cain (1886). Roman.
- Lines on the Shelley Society (1886)
- Almae matres (1887)
- He (1887). Parodie. Avec Walter Herries Pollock.
- Aucassin and Nicolette (1887)
- Myth, Ritual and Religion (2 volumes, 1887)
- Johnny Nut and the Golden Goose (1887). Traduit du français de Charles Deulin.
- Grass of Parnassus (1888). Poésies.
- Perrault's Popular Tales (1888)
- Gold of Fairnilee (1888)
- Pictures at Play or Dialogues of the Galleries (1888). Avec W.E. Henley.
- The Idyls Of Theocritus, Bion & Moschus (1889). Traduction.
- Prince Prigio (1889)
- The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
- Letters on Literature (1889)
- Lost Leaders (1889)
- Ode to Golf (1889)
- The Dead Leman and other tales from the French (1889). Traduction.
- 1890-1899
- The Red Fairy Book (1890)
- The World's Desire (1890). Avec Henry Rider Haggard
- Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody (1890)
- The Strife of Love in a Dream, Being the Elizabethan Version of the First Book of the Hypnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna (1890)
- The Life, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1890)
- Etudes traditionnists (1890)
- How to Fail in Literature (1890)
- The Blue Poetry Book (1891)
- Essays in Little (1891)
- On Calais Sands (1891)
- The Green Fairy Book (1892)
- The Library with a Chapter on Modern English Illustrated Books (1892). Avec Austin Dobson.
- William Young Sellar (1892)
- The True Story Book (1893)
- Homer and the Epic (1893)
- Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893)
- Waverley Novels, 48 volumes (1893)
- Montezuma's Daughter (1893). Avec Henry Rider Haggard.
- The Yellow Fairy Book]] (1894)
- Kirk's Secret Commonwealth (1893)
- St Andrews (1893)
- The Tercentenary of Izaak Walton (1893)
- Ban and Arrière Ban (1894)
- Cock Lane and Common-Sense (1894)
- Memoir of R. F. Murray (1894)
- The Red True Story Book (1895)
- My Own Fairy Book (1895)
- Angling Sketches (1895)
- A Monk of Fife (1895)
- The Voices of Jeanne D'Arc (1895)
- The Animal Story Book (1896)
- The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1896)
- The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (2 volumes, 1896)
- The Nursery Rhyme Book (1897)
- The Miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois (1897). Traduction.
- The Pink Fairy Book (1897)
- A Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897)
- Pickle the Spy (1897)
- Modern Mythology (1897)
- The Companions of Pickle (1898)
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898)
- The Making of Religion (1898)
- Selections from Coleridge (1898)
- Waiting on the Glesca Train (1898)
- The Red Book of Animal Stories (1899)
- The Homeric Hymns (1899). Traduction.
- The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four Volumes (1899)
- 1900-1909
- The Grey Fairy Book (1900)
- Prince Charles Edward (1900)
- Parson Kelly (1900)
- The Poems and Ballads of Sir Walter Scott, Bart (1900)
- A History of Scotland - From the Roman Occupation (4 volumes, 1900–1907)
- Notes and Names in Books (1900)
- Alfred Tennyson (1901)
- Magic and Religion (1901)
- Adventures Among Books (1901)
- The Violet Fairy Book (1901)
- The Mystery of Mary Stuart (1901 ; 1904)
- The Book of Romance (1902)
- The Disentanglers (1902)
- James VI and the Gowrie Mystery (1902)
- Notre-Dame Of Paris (1902). Traduction.
- The Young Ruthvens (1902)
- The Gowrie Conspiracy: the Confessions of Sprott (1902)
- The Crimson Fairy Book (1903)
- Lyrics (1903)
- Social England Illustrated (1903)
- The Story of the Golden Fleece (1903)
- The Valet's Tragedy (1903)
- Social Origins (1903)
- The Snowman and Other Fairy Stories (1903)
- Stella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies (1903). Avec Henry Rider Haggard.
- The Brown Fairy Book (1904)
- Historical Mysteries (1904)
- The Secret of the Totem (1905)
- New Collected Rhymes (1905)
- John Knox and the Reformation (1905)
- The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot (1905)
- The Clyde Mystery. A Study in Forgeries and Folklore (1905)
- Adventures among Books (1905)
- Homer and His Age (1906)
- The Red Romance Book (1906)
- The Orange Fairy Book (1906)
- The Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart (1906)
- Life of Sir Walter Scott (1906)
- The Story of Joan of Arc (1906)
- New and Old Letters to Dead Authors (1906)
- Tales of a Fairy Court (1907)
- The Olive Fairy Book (1907)
- Poets' Country (1907). En collaboration.
- The King over the Water (1907)
- Tales of Troy and Greece (1907)
- The Origins of Religion (1908)
- The Book of Princes and Princesses (1908)
- Origins of Terms of Human Relationships (1908)
- Select Poems of Joan Ingelow (1908)
- Three Poets of French Bohemia (1908)
- The Red Book of Heroes (1909)
- The Marvellous Musician and Other Stories (1909)
- Sir George Mackenzie King's Advocate, of Rosehaugh, His Life and Times (1909)
- 1910-1912
- The Lilac Fairy Book (1910)
- Does Ridicule Kill? (1910)
- Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy (1910)
- The World of Homer (1910)
- The All Sorts of Stories Book (1911)
- Ballades and Rhymes (1911)
- Method in the Study of Totemism (1911)
- The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912)
- Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown (1912)
- A History of English Literature (1912)
- In Praise of Frugality (1912)
- Ode on a Distant Memory of Jane Eyre (1912)
- Ode to the Opening Century (1912)
- Ouvrages posthumes
- Highways and Byways in The Border (1913)
- The Strange Story Book (1913)
- The Poetical Works (4 volumes, 1923)
- Old Friends Among the Fairies: Puss in Boots and Other Stories. Chosen from the Fairy Books (1926)
- Tartan Tales From Andrew Lang (1928)
- From Omar Khayyam (1935)
[modifier] Liens externes
- Andrew Lang, Un côté négligé de la religion grecque, Études traditionnistes, Vol. VI, traduit par Henry Carnoy, Édition J. Maisonneuve, Paris, 1890, p. 46-56.
- Andrew Lang, Le Boycottage primitif, Études traditionnistes, Vol. VI, traduit par Henry Carnoy, Édition J. Maisonneuve, Paris, 1890, p. 21-32.