The Name and Nature of Poetry.
New York: The Macmillan Company: 1933.
8vo, 50 pp. Full red cloth with gilt titles and unclipped dust-jacket. Near fine, unmarked copy with some darkening to pastedowns. Dust-jacket with some toning and splits but now preserved in mylar and presenting well.
§ First edition, fifth printing (stated). The Leslie Stephen Lecture, delivered at Cambridge, 9 May 1933. "I could no more define poetry than a terrier could define a rat, but we both recognize the object by the symptoms which it provokes in us." Item #126392
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