POETRY AND DRAMA

First edition, first printing. Original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper which is lightly toned and nicked to the spine and flap folds and has a short closed tear to the top edge of the front panel and front flap fold. Not price clipped (7s. 6d. to the bottom of the front flap).

A lecture given by Eliot at Harvard in 1950 in memory of his friend Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, which examines the use of poetry for dramatic purposes, and the effect of the dramatic purpose upon the poetry.