An Introduction to the Study of Literature

by William Henry Hudson

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.

Genres: Literature

436 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 1910

About the author

William Henry Hudson was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. His works include Green Mansions (1904).

Argentines consider him to belong to their national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing natural and human dramas on then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. He settled in England during 1874. He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology (1888-1899) and British Birds (1895), and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including Hampshire Days (1903), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910). People best know his nonfiction in Far Away and Long Ago (1918). His other works include: The Purple Land (That England Lost) (1885), A Crystal Age (1887), The Naturalist in La Plata (1892), A Little Boy Lost (1905), Birds in Town and Village (1919), Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn (1920), and A Traveller in Little Things (1921).

Reviews

[Maria T · Rating 2 out of 5]

A book that made Literature classes dull, drab and depressing to the core. I add this book here in tribute to the endless torture it imposed and continues to impose on poor students

[Renu Anna Boban · Rating 1 out of 5]

A book which dwarfed anesthesia.