Lectures on poetry
By: by J.W. Mackail ...
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.
Published: 1911
Place of publication: London; New York [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Poetry.
Notes: "The main substance of the following pages consists of public lectures given to the University of Oxford in the years 1907 to 1911. Together with ... The springs of Helicon (1909) and Lectures on Greek poetry (1910), this volume contains all the lectures given by me from the chair of poetry, except a few ... of more local and transitory interest."--Introd.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: The definition of poetry.; title: Poetry and life.; title: Virgil and Virgilianism.; title: The Aeneid.; title: Arabian lyric poetry.; title: Arabian epic and romantic poetry.; title: The Divine comedy.; title: Shakespeare's sonnets.; title: The note of Shakespeare's romances.; title: The poetry of Oxford.; title: Imagination.; title: Keats.; title: The progress of poetry.