The Name and Nature of Poetry

by A. E. Housman

$30 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

New York: The Macmillan Company: 1933. 8vo, 50 pp. Full red cloth with gilt titles and unclipped dust-jacket. Near fine, unmarked copy with some darkening to pastedowns. Dust-jacket with some toning and splits but now preserved in mylar and presenting well. § First edition, fifth printing stated . The Leslie Stephen Lecture, delivered at Cambridge, 9 May 1933. I could no more define poetry than a terrier could define a rat, but we both recognize the object by

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