The Road to Xanadu A Study in the Ways of the Imagination Book by John Livingston Lowes : Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

Format: Hardcover

Author: John Livingston Lowes

ISBN:

Publication year: 1927

Condition: Used - Good



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About the book >.>.> The Road to Xanadu A Study in the Ways of the Imagination Book by John Livingston Lowes

John Livingston Lowes’s study examines the imaginative energy he sees at work in the making of literary works. Its starting point is a chance encounter with “The Ancient Mariner”, which redirects the writer from his immediate interest in Chaucer. The encounter prompts an inquiry into how imaginative creation operates behind the stories and their creator’s distinctive personality.

Lowes describes the book as an attempt to follow an unfamiliar path and to make clear the order that gives meaning to a mass of details. Rather than confining his observations to a specialist journal, he chose a broader treatment because he considered the subject interesting and its implications significant beyond its immediate examples. The preface presents the study as an account shaped by the writer’s effort to understand and communicate the workings of imagination through close attention to literary material. (MP)