Poetry · 1894
Ban and Arriere Ban
A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes
Ban and Arriere Ban, first published in 1894, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Dedication
- Note
- Erratum
- A Scot to Jeanne D’Arc
- How They Held the Bass for King James—1691–1693
- From Omar Khayyam
- Les Roses de Sâdi
- The Haunted Tower
- Boat-Song
- Lost Love
- The Promise of Helen
- The Restoration of Romance
- Central American Antiquities
- On Calais Sands
- Ballade of Yule
- Envoi
- Poscimur
- I — On His Dead Sea-Mew
- II — The Sailor’s Grave
- From Meleager
- On the Garland Sent to Rhodocleia
- Golden Eyes
- A Galloway Garland
- Celia’s Eyes
- Britannia
- Gallia
- The Fairy Minister
- To Robert Louis Stevenson
- For Mark Twain’s Jubilee
- III
- Mist
- Lines
- Ode to Golf
- Freshman’s Term
- A Toast
- Death in June
- To Correspondents
- Ballade of Difficult Rhymes
- Envoi
- Ballant O’ Ballantrae
- Song by the Sub-Conscious Self
- The Haunted Homes of England
- The Disappointment
- To the Gentle Reader
- The Sonnet
- The Tournay of the Heroes
- Ballad of the Philanthropist
- Moral
- In Ercildoune
- For a Rose’s Sake
- The Brigand’s Grave
- The New-Liveried Year
- More Strong Than Death
- Silentia Lunae
- His Lady’s Tomb
- The Poet’s Apology
- Notes
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1844–1912 · Victorian
Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was born in Selkirk and educated at St Andrews, Glasgow and Oxford, where he held a fellowship at Merton College before turning to literary journalism in London. A folklorist, classicist, historian, poet and immensely prolific reviewer, he is best remembered as the general editor of the twelve "colour" fairy books (1889–1910), for which his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang, and other collaborators carried out much of the actual translation under his direction. He also wrote fairy tales of his own, among them Prince Prigio, and a History of Scotland.
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