POETRY AND DRAMA

First edition, first printing. Original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities and fore-edge of the lower board with some fading and rubbing. There is some light spotting to the closed text block edge, faintly to the prelims and light offsetting to a blank flyleaf, the contents are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has short closed tears to the head of the toned spine and moderate abrasions to the rear panel which affect some of the text. 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.