CONTENTS

I WHAT LITERATURE IS

II LITERARY EXPRESSION

III THE STUDY OF LITERATURE

IV WHY WE STUDY LITERATURE

V FALSE METHODS

VI METHODS OF STUDY

VII THE LANGUAGE OF LITERATURE

VIII THE INTANGIBLE LANGUAGE

IX THE CLASSICS

X THE VALUE OF THE CLASSICS

XI THE GREATER CLASSICS

XII CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

XIII NEW BOOKS AND OLD

XIV FICTION

XV FICTION AND LIFE

XVI POETRY

XVII THE TEXTURE OF POETRY

XVIII POETRY AND LIFE

INDEX

BY
ARLO BATES

Riverside Press

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1897
BY ARLO BATES
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

This volume is made up from a course of lectures delivered under the auspices of the Lowell Institute in the autumn of 1895. These have been revised and to some extent rewritten, and the division into chapters made; but there has been no essential change.