Given as public addresses by a classical scholar at a time when literary study was being belittled, these lectures try to show that literature can be studied as well as read. Tucker discusses the supreme literary gift, Hebraism and Hellenism, two poets who followed Tennyson, the making of a Shakespeare, literature and life, and the future of poetry.
Clear, humane criticism for readers who want to think about why books matter. Download the free EPUB.