ABSTRACT
First published in 1951, this book is based on a course of lectures on poetry and prose given at Cambridge University during the long vacations of 1946-1950. A request for lectures of this kind came originally from a group of science students and the response was such that a course of this nature ran yearly. The purpose was to provide students from disciplines other than the humanities with the opportunity to feed their interest in English poetry and literature.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 4|11 pages
Two kinds of obscurity
Blake's The Sick Rose: and a passage from T. S, Eliot's The Waste Land