Letters on Literature

"Letters on Literature" by Andrew Lang is a collection of essays and letters that explores different literary subjects and personalities, probably from the late 1800s. The book seems to go into conversations about poetry, famous writers, and opinions about literature, showing the author's own thoughts and feelings about the state of writing and those who create it during that time. The author, at the start of "Letters on Literature," explains how the essays are set up and what they're meant to do; he wants to talk to a reader from his own time and uses a letter-writing style to talk about current English poetry and other writing topics. Lang points out how poetry is doing at the moment and how it seems to be losing popularity and quality, bringing up famous poets like Tennyson and Browning while talking about how hard it is to appreciate literature in a world that's changing; he thinks about how important writers of the past are compared to writers of today, which leads to more detailed reviews of specific poets and writing trends later in the book.