Relation of Literature to Life Author:Charles Dudley Warner Charles Warner was an American essayist in the late 1800Žs. The Relation of Literature to Life is a biographical sketch of Thomas R Lounsbury (1838-1915) who was an American literary historian and critic. After graduating from Yale he also received degrees from Harvard, Lafayette, Princeton, and Aberdeen. He enlisted in the 126th New York Vol... more »unteers in 1862 and served in the Civil War. Lounsbury spent his academic career as Professor of English and as a librarian at Yale.« less