Lafcadio hearn biography of abraham

  • Hearn was born on the Greek island of Lefkas, on June 27, 1850, son of an Anglo-Irish surgeon major in the British army and a Greek mother.
  • The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn, by Elizabeth Bisland.
  • Perhaps no definitive biography of Hearn can be attempted.

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    Books and Habits

    *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14338 ***

    from the lectures of

    Lafcadio Hearn

    Selected and Edited with an Introduction by

    John Erskine

    Professor of English Columbia University

    1922

    London: William Heinemann

    Contents

    Introduction

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    These chapters, for the most part, are reprinted from Lafcadio Hearn’s “Interpretations of Literature,” 1915, from his “Life and Literature,” 1916, and from his “Appreciations of Poetry,” 1917. Three chapters appear here for the first time. They are all taken from the student notes of Hearn’s lectures at the University of Tokyo, 1896-1902, sufficiently described in the earlier volumes just mentioned. They are now published in this regrouping in response to a demand for a further selection of the lectures, in a less expensive volume and with emphasis upon those papers which illustrate Hearn’s extraordinary ability to interpret the ex

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    "Lafcadio Hearn is almost as Japanese as haiku. Both are an art form, an institution in Japan. Haiku is indigenous to the nation; Hearn became a Japanese citizen and married a Japanese, taking the name Yakumo Koizumi. His flight from Western materialism brought him to Japan in 1890. His search for beauty and tranquility, for pleasing customs and lasting values, kept him there the rest of his life, a confirmed Japanophile. He became the great interpreter of things Japanese to the West. His keen intellect, poetic imagination and wonderful clear style permitted him to penetrate to the very essence of things Japanese."

    from Tuttle's "publisher's foreword" to Hearn editions

    Biography
    Hearn was born on the Greek island of Lefkas, on June 27, 1850, son of an Anglo-Irish surgeon major in the British army and a Greek mother. After his parents' divorce when he was six, he was brought up by a great-aunt in Dublin, Ireland. He lost the sight in his left eye at the age of 16, and soon

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    Lafcadio Hearn and other notable Cincinnati journalists who made history

    The celebrated writer Lafcadio Hearn sold his first story to The Cincinnati Enquirer 150 years ago, beginning a legendary journalism career.

    Hearn was as interesting as the stories he covered. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, he was given a one-way ticket to Cincinnati in 1870 and slept in warehouses until he was hired by The Enquirer.

    His first story, published Nov. 4, 1872, was titled “London Sights,” with atmospheric descriptions of Whitechapel, the slums where Jack the Ripper would roam 16 years later.

    Back then stories didn’t have bylines, but Hearn’s distinctive prose was easy to identify as he specialized in the macabre, writing lurid details of crimes, but also covering matters no one else ever did – the Black stevedores living in Bucktown, gravediggers, mediums and prostitutes.

    Hearn described himself as “a ung man … whose tastes were whimsically grotesque and arabesque” that “reveled in

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