Boston And New York: 2 books
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
The Sarashina Diary, The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu, The Diary of Izumi Shikibu (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The poems in the text, slight and occasional as they are, depending often for their charm on plays upon words of two meanings, or on the suggestions conveyed to the Japanese mind by a single word, have presented problems of great difficulty to the translators, not perfectly overcome. Izumi Shikibu's...
Talks on Writing English
First Series
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
These talks were given in the autumn of 1894 as a course on Advanced English Composition in the Lowell Free Classes, and that they are now printed is largely due to the fact that they were so well received by those who then heard them. In preparing them, I consulted whatever books upon composition...