God grant that the reader, emboldened and having become at present as fierce as what he is reading, find, without loss of bearings, his way, his wild and treacherous passage through the desolate swamps of these sombre, poison-soaked pages; for, unless he should bring to his reading a rigorous logic and a sustained mental effort at least as strong as his distrust, the lethal fumes of this book shall dissolve his soul as water does sugar.
August 19 –
A. H. Reginald Buller (died
1944), British/Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust; also writer of
limericks, some of which are published in Punch
September 8 –
Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎 (died
1947),
Japanese poet, fiction writer, essayist and literary critic in both English and Japanese; father of the sculptor
Isamu Noguchi
^
abcdeLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p. vi.)
^Calhoun, Charles C. Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
ISBN0-8070-7026-2
^"Jean Lemaire de Belges" article, p 453, in France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, New York: Oxford University Press,
ISBN0-19-866125-8
^Mohan, Sarala Jag,
Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996,
ISBN978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
God grant that the reader, emboldened and having become at present as fierce as what he is reading, find, without loss of bearings, his way, his wild and treacherous passage through the desolate swamps of these sombre, poison-soaked pages; for, unless he should bring to his reading a rigorous logic and a sustained mental effort at least as strong as his distrust, the lethal fumes of this book shall dissolve his soul as water does sugar.
August 19 –
A. H. Reginald Buller (died
1944), British/Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust; also writer of
limericks, some of which are published in Punch
September 8 –
Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎 (died
1947),
Japanese poet, fiction writer, essayist and literary critic in both English and Japanese; father of the sculptor
Isamu Noguchi
^
abcdeLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p. vi.)
^Calhoun, Charles C. Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
ISBN0-8070-7026-2
^"Jean Lemaire de Belges" article, p 453, in France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, New York: Oxford University Press,
ISBN0-19-866125-8
^Mohan, Sarala Jag,
Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996,
ISBN978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008