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...Classical Traditions Dryden and Johnson," will be the subject of the third of the Norton Lectures, to be given tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall by T. S. Eliot '10, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. The general topic of the lecture series, "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism,' will be considered from the standpoint of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century poets...
...Poetry," dealing with the primary uses of criticism, and the validity of a use of poetry," dealing with the primary uses of criticism, and the validity of a use for poetry. The titles of the two remaining lectures which will be given this half year are "The Classical Tradition: Dryden and Johnson," to be given on Friday, December 2, and "The Theories of Coleridge and Wordsworth," on Friday, December...
...radio, even more than the public platform, is obviously a difficult medium for anything more than the conventional 'appreciative' discourse on poetry, and these essays can best be taken as an exceptionally graceful and discriminating specimen of that character. They bring little new matter to the contemporary 'rehabilitation' of Dryden's reputation, though they may possibly give wider currency to that phenomenon...
...Eliot is here chiefly concerned with the sanity and breadth of Dryden's genius, and the influence of those qualities of the poet on English poetry from his day to our own. In the first essay of the book he says: "It was Dryden who for the first time, and as far as we are concerned, for all time, established a normal English speech, a speech valid for both verse and prose, and imposing its laws which greater poetry than Dryden's might violate, but which no poetry since has overthrown." This statement covers both of Mr. Eliot's main...
...Criticism." The series of talks is divided into two groups of four lectures each. The titles and dates of the first group, which will be given during the first half year, are: "Poetry and Criticism in the Time of Elizabeth," Friday, November 25; "The Classical Tradition: Dryden and Johnson," Friday, December 2; "The Theories of Coleridge and Words-worth," Friday, December...