ABSTRACT
Andrew Lang (1844-1912), Scottish man of letters, was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford 1868-74, when he studied myth and ritual. He moved to London in 1875 to become a journalist, specializing in mythology, on which he published a number of books. He also published several popular collections of fairy-tales, critical studies of literary figures, a translation of Homer, a History of Scotland in three volumes, and A History of English Literature, in which he allowed five pages to Donne (A History of English Literature from ‘Beowulf’ to Swinburne, 1912, pp. 284-9).
