Delivered while the author of Shakespearean Tragedy was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, these 1909 lectures begin with poetry for poetry’s sake and go on to the sublime, Hegel’s theory of tragedy, Wordsworth, Shelley’s view of poetry, and studies of Shakespeare including the rejection of Falstaff and Antony and Cleopatra.
Humane, searching criticism by one of the great Shakespeareans, still rewarding for any serious reader of verse. Download the free EPUB.