THE PROFESSION OF POETRY; And other lectures
first edition
1929 · London
by GARROD, H. W.
London: Oxford, 1929. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 270. Owner's name on flyleaf. VG in some worn dj. Lectures delivereed while chair of the poetry dept at Oxford. .The profession of poetry.--Poets and philosophers.--'Pure poetry.'--Byron, 1824-1924.--Coleridge.--Wordsworth's Lucy.--The place of Hazlitt in English criticism.--Cowley, Johnson, and the 'Metaphysicals.'--The nightingale in poetry.--Rupert Brooke,--The poetry of R. L. Stevenson.--Mr. Humbert Wolfe.--Mr. A. E. Houseman.--Massinger.--Milton and Oxford.--How to know a good book from a bad.--Walter Raleigh. (Inventory #: 37879)