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Amongst the topics covered here are Material and Method, Time and Place, Meditation and Imagination, The First Delight, The Feeling for Literature, The Books of Life, From the Book to the Reader, By Way of Illustration, Personality, Liberation Through Ideas, The Logic of Free Life, The Imagination, Breadth of Life, Racial Expression, Freshness of Feeling, Liberation From One's Time, Liberation From One's Place, The Unconscious Element, The Teaching of Tragedy, The Culture Element in Fiction, Culture Through Action, The Interpretation of Idealism, The Vision of Perfection, and Retrospect.Hamilton Wright Mabie was born in 1845 and died in 1916. He graduated from Williams College in 1867 and from the Columbia Law School in 1869. In 1879 he joined the editorial staff of the Christian Union, now the Outlook, and later became its associate editor. His essays and criticisms were pub1ished in many magazines and newspapers. Among his published works are "Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas," "Nature in New England," "My Study Fire," "Short Studies in Literature," "Under the Trees and Elsewhere," "Backgrounds of Literature," "Shakespeare, Poet, Dramatist, and Man" "Introductions to Notable Poems," "Japan To-day and Tomorrow," and several books for children. Under the Carnegie Peace Foundation he went as Exchange Professor to Japan in the winter of 1912-1913. He received honorary degrees from Williams, Union, and several other colleges.Mabie, Hamilton Wright is the author of 'Books and Culture' with ISBN 9781417971909 and ISBN 1417971908.
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