Essays and addresses.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Grierson, Herbert John Clifford, Sir, 1866-1960
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Chatto & Windus, 1940.
Subjects:	English literature > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

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