Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smith ( born October 18, 1865 in Millville, New Jersey, † March 3, 1946 in London) was a British, originating from the U.S. writer of aphorisms and literary critic.

Family

Logan Pearsall Smith came from a wealthy Quaker family in New Jersey. His mother Hannah Whitall Smith was the daughter of a rich glass manufacturers. His father, Robert Pearsall Smith was a descendant of the politician James Logan (1674-1754), a longtime adviser William Penn and Chief Justice of Pennsylvania in the 18th century. Both parents were revivalists and acted as a writer. His sister Alys Pearsall Smith was the first wife of Bertrand Russell, his sister Mary Smith was married in second marriage with the art historian Bernard Berenson. Smith himself remained unmarried.

Life

Smith, who lived for a time in England as a child with his family, the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia visited. Smith refused to enter the family business and studied instead, generous financial support of the family, at Haverford College, Harvard, and at Balliol College, Oxford University, where he completed his studies philology in 1891. After graduation, he stayed in England - alternate in his London home or across the country - in Paris and in various European countries, was active as a writer and lived a life as a flaneur. In 1913 he took on British citizenship. Among other things, he worked on during these years with the English diplomat and poet Henry Wotton, about whom he wrote a two-volume work

Work

His main work is considered the Book Trivia. The collection of Prosaskiszzen was created 1902-1933 and have been revised by Smith and over again. The sophisticated, often ironic prose malice in the tradition of Baudelaire's " Spleen de Paris " and included reflections on his own life as well as descriptions and reflections on inconspicuous everyday occurrences.

Reception in the literature

Logan Pearsall Smith served Virginia Woolf as a model for the figure of Nicholas Green in her novel Orlando, whose views and opinions partly letter or in spirit quotes from Smiths in the Hogarth Press publicized pamphlet "The Pospects of Literature " are.

Quotes

"After two things you have to strive in life to gain that which you want, and enjoy it. Only the wisest bring the Second finished. "

"Those who make out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God "

Quote collections

  • Citations, English.
  • Citations, English.

Works (selection)

Of his numerous short stories and literary works previously only Trivia was translated into German.

  • Trivia. 1902; More trivia. New York 1921; All Trivia. Trivia, more trivia, afterthoughts, last words. Collection. 1933 German translation. :
  • Anglo - American copyright .... Harvard University, 1887. ISBN 978-1-272-54588-8
  • The Youth of Parnassus, and other stories. In 1895.
  • Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton. 2 vols emphasis Oxford:. Clarendon Press 1966 ISBN 1-176-53186-7.
  • Little Essays Drawn from the Writings of George Santayana ..
  • English Idioms. In 1923.
  • Four Words. Romantic, Originality, Creative, Genius. Oxford, Clartendon Press 1924.
  • Unforgotten Years., 1939.
  • Milton and His Modern Critics. Oxford Univ. Press, 1942.
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