Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang (* 31. März 1844 in Selkirk (Schottland); † 20. Juli 1912 in Banchory, Kincardineshire) war ein sehr produktiver schottischer Schriftsteller und einer der bekanntesten Journalisten seiner Zeit (u. a. Daily News, Morning Post).

Andrew Lang, gezeichnet von Burne Murdock

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Leben

Andrew Lang war das älteste von acht Kindern von John Lang, einem Stadtangestellten in Selkirk (Schottland) und Jane Sellar. Er wurde auf der Edinburgh Academy, der Universität St Andrews und auf dem Balliol College in Oxford erzogen. Dank seines sehr guten Abschlusses in Altphilologie wurde er Fellow des Merton College in Oxford. Er machte sich schnell einen Namen als Journalist, Poet, Theaterkritiker und Geschichtsexperte. 1911 war Andrew Lang Präsident der Society for Psychical Research. Als Altphilologe und Dichter beteiligte er sich an neuen Prosa-Übersetzungen der Ilias und Odyssee von Homer, über den er auch einige Bücher schrieb.

Lang ist heute vor allem für seine vielen Publikationen über Folklore, Mythologie und Religion bekannt. In seinem Werk Making of Religion (1900) vertritt er die These, dass im Volksglauben und Legenden (auch im okkulten Bereich wie den Poltergeistern) alte spirituelle Ideen lebendig sind. Er veröffentlichte auch zahlreiche Märchensammlungen und Feengeschichten, darunter The Blue Fairy Book.

Als Historiker ist er für die Aufklärung einiger alter historischer Rätsel bekannt, speziell in Zusammenhang mit schottischer Geschichte. So klärte er die Identität des englischen Spions Pickle (der von den Jakobiten nie verdächtigte Alistair McDonnell), der im Umkreis von Bonnie Prince Charles aktiv war. Er beschäftigte sich auch mit dem „Mann mit der eisernen Maske“ (in The valets tragedy), rehabilitierte Maria Stuart, fand neue Dokumente zum Graf von Saint Germain u.a.

Auf literarischem Gebiet leitete er lange die Literaturkritik in Longman´s Magazine und gab die Werke von Robert Burns heraus. Als Anwendung seiner detektivischen Fähigkeiten versuchte er auch Charles Dickens unvollendeten Kriminalroman Das Geheimnis des Edwin Drood zu entwirren. Auch mit der Frage der Shakespeareschen Urheberschaft befasste er sich länger. Er kam in seinen späten Jahren zu der Überzeugung, nicht Francis Bacon, sondern ein noch nicht identifizierter „Großer Unbekannter“ müsse der Autor der Shakespeare’schen Werke gewesen sein [1].

Aus der 1875 geschlossenen Ehe mit Leonora Blanche Alleyne gingen keine Kinder hervor.

Werke

bis 1889

  • The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872)
  • The Odyssey Of Homer Rendered Into English Prose (1879) übersetzt zusammen mit 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) Gedichte
  • The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche (1882) mit William Aldington
  • The Iliad of Homer, a prose translation (1883) mit Walter Leaf und Ernest Myers
  • Custom and Myth (1884)
  • The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland (1884)
  • Ballads and Verses Vain (1884) selected by Austin Dobson
  • Rhymes à la Mode (1884)
  • Much Darker Days (1884)
  • That Very Mab (1885) with May Kendall
  • Books and Bookmen (1886)
  • Letters to Dead Authors (1886)
  • In the Wrong Paradise (1886) stories
  • The Mark of Cain (1886) novel
  • Lines on the Shelley Society (1886)
  • Almae matres (1887)
  • He (1887) parody
  • Aucassin and Nicolete (1887)
  • Myth, Ritual and Religion (2 vols., 1887)
  • Johnny Nut and the Golden Goose. Done into English from the French of Charles Deulin (1887)
  • Grass of Parnassus (1888) poems
  • Perrault's Popular Tales (1888)
  • Gold of Fairnilee (1888)
  • Pictures at Play or Dialogues of the Galleries (1888) with W. E. Henley
  • The Idyls Of Theocritus, Bion & Moschus (1889) translator
  • Prince Prigio (1889)
  • The Blue Fairy Book (1889)[2]
  • Letters on Literature (1889)
  • Lost Leaders (1889)
  • Ode to Golf (1889)
  • The Dead Leman and other tales from the French (1889) translator with Paul Sylvester

1890–1899

  • The Red Fairy Book (1890)[3]
  • The World's Desire (1890) with H. 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)
  • Work for Dolmann in red (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)[4]
  • The Library with a Chapter on Modern English Illustrated Books (1892) with 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) editor
  • St. Andrews (1893)
  • Montezuma's Daughter (1893) with H. Rider Haggard
  • The Yellow Fairy Book (1894)[5]
  • 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) editor
  • The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (1896) two volumes
  • The Nursery Rhyme Book (1897)
  • The Miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois (1897) translator
  • 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) translator
  • The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four Volumes (1899) editor

1900–1909

  • The Grey Fairy Book (1900)
  • Prince Charles Edward (1900)
  • Parson Kelly (1900)
  • The Poems and Ballads of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (1900) editor
  • A History of Scotland - From the Roman Occupation (1900 – 1907)) four volumes
  • Notes and Names in Books (1900)
  • Alfred Tennyson (1901)
  • Magic and Religion (1901)
  • Adventures Among Books (1901)
  • The Violet Fairy Book (1901)[6]
  • The Mystery of Mary Stuart (1901, new and revised ed., 1904)
  • The Book of Romance (1902)
  • The Disentanglers (1902) stories
  • James VI and the Gowrie Mystery (1902)
  • Notre-Dame Of Paris (1902) translator
  • The Young Ruthvens (1902)
  • The Gowrie Conspiracy: the Confessions of Sprott (1902) editor
  • The Crimson Fairy Book (1903)
  • Lyrics (1903)
  • Social England Illustrated (1903) editor
  • The Story of the Golden Fleece (1903)
  • The Valet's Tragedy (1903)
  • Social Origins (1903) with Primal Law by James Jasper Atkinson
  • The Snowman and Other Fairy Stories (1903)
  • Stella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies (1903) with H. Rider Haggard
  • The Brown Fairy Book (1904)[7]
  • 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) editor, with Churton Collins, W. J. Loftie, E. Hartley Coleridge, Michael Macmillan
  • The King over the Water (1907)
  • Tales of Troy and Greece (1907)
  • The Origins of Religion (1908) essays
  • The Book of Princes and Princesses (1908)
  • Origins of Terms of Human Relationships (1908)
  • Select Poems of Joan Ingelow (1908) editor
  • 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)

Postum

  • Highways and Byways in The Border (1913) with John Lang
  • The Strange Story Book (1913) with Mrs. Lang
  • The Poetical Works (1923) edited by Mrs. Lang, four volumes
  • Old Friends Among the Fairies: Puss in Boots and Other Stories. Chosen from the Fairy Books (1926)
  • Tartan Tales From Andrew Lang (1928) edited by Bertha L. Gunterman
  • From Omar Khayyam (1935)

Weblinks

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Einzelnachweise

  1. Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown.
  2. The Folio Society
  3. The Folio Society
  4. The Folio Society
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