Essays and addresses
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1940
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Address at the presentation to Aberdeen Grammar School of a statue of Lord Byron, 1923.; title: Preface to a collection of ancient Chinese parables, 1924.; title: Scott and Carlyle (the substance of an address to the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, 1927); title: A note upon the "Samson Agonistes" of John Milton and "Samson of Heilige Wraeck" by Joost van den Vondel, 1930.; title: Carlyle and Hitler (the Adamson lecture in the University of Manchester, 1930); title: Robert Henryson (an address to the Scottish P.E.N. Club, at a Henryson dinner, 1933); title: Lang, Lockhart, and biography (the Andrew Lang lecture in the University of St. Andrews, 1933); title: Two Dutch poets (the Taylorian lecture in the University of Oxford, 1936); title: The university and a liberal education (the rectorial address to the University of Edinburgh, 1937); title: A review of "Pastoral poetry and pastoral drama," by Walter W. Greg, 1908.; title: Bacon's poem, "The world:" its date and relation to certain other poems, 1911.; title: A review of "The letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple," edited by G. C. Moore Smith, 1929.; title: A review of "La jeunesse de Swinburne," by Georges Lafourcade, 1930.; title: A review of "The later Wordsworth," by Edith C. Batho, 1934.